Conference “German Abroad 2” announced! From Nov. 2-4, 2016, the TGDP is involved in hosting the conference “German Abroad 2: Perspectives from variationist sociolinguistics, language contact, and multilingualism.” Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2016.
TGDP presentation at the 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX: “Identity versus social networks in Texas German.” (Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce)
Hans C. Boas organizes workshop on “(Re)Living Language Change” at the 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX.
TGDP presentation at the 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX: “Central Wisconsin Pomeranian Low German: Language contact in a close-knit rural community.” (Ryan Dux)
TGDP presentation at the 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX: “Viva la kleine Alsace!” (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the monthly meeting of the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association in Houston, TX: “Culture in Language: The Texas German Dialect Project.” (Hans C. Boas)
New TGDP publication by Jim Kearney:Book review in Yearbook of German-American Studies of A Voyage of Hopes and Dreams by Frank Wissel. San Antonio: HPN Press, 2016
New TGDP publication by Jim Kearney:Book review in Yearbook of German-American Studies of Passengers on the Ben Nevis and Their Families. Compiled by Weldon W. Mersiovsky. Introduction by George R. Nielson. Serbin, Texas: Texas Wendish Society, 2016.
New TGDP publication by Jim Kearney:Book review in Yearbook of German-American Studies of Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande: Heinrich Portscheller by W. Eugene George. Compiled and edited by Mary Carolyn Hollers George. Foreword by Maria Eugenia Guerra. Afterword by Stephen Fox. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2016.