TGDP presentation at the 22nd Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX: “Texas German voices from historical letters: An interdisciplinary project to collect, digitize, and archive 19th and 20th century Texas German” (Verena Sauer, Margo Blevins, Hans Boas, Jana Weiss)
TGDP poster at the 22nd Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX: “Language-tagging system for contact language varieties: a Texas German case study” (Margo Blevins) [PDF]
The following students start as research assistants for the TGDP this February: Atalia Isreael-Nevo, Kendal James, Elisabeth Mathis, Emma Morrow, Sarah Raymond, and Robert Seiler. Welcome to the TGDP!
TGDP members start scanning Texas German historical letters from the 19th century at the Briscoe Center for American History. This is a joint project with the German Heritage in Letters Project at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.