We are happy to announce that the Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation is supporting the Texas German Dialect Project with funding for a year-long Graduate Research Assistant position. The funding will allow the TGDP to continue recording more of the remaining speakers of Texas German and to archive these recordings in the Texas German Dialect Archive. We are extremely grateful for the generous support by the Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation.
TGDP presentation at the workshop German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany: “A constructional approach to case syncretism in Texas German.” (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the workshop German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany: “Language Contact and the History of /pf/ in Texas German.” (Marc Pierce)
TGDP presentation at the workshop German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany: “Orthographic Normalization of Language Contact Data.” (Margo Blevins)
TGDP publication by James Kearney: “The Murder of Conrad Caspar Rordorf: Art, Violence, and Intrigue on the Texas Frontier,” in Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXXIII, No. 1, 1-28.
TGDP presentation at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim: “Die orthographische Normalisierung deutschsprachiger Kontaktvarietät-Daten” (On the orthographic normalization of data from German-based contact varieties)(Margo Blevins)