TGDP presentation at the 42nd Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), in Hamburg: “Lexical Borrowings in Texas German” (Margo Blevins and Roslyn Burns).
TGDP poster presentation at the annual conference of the Institute for the German Language (Mannheim): “Entwicklung einer vergleichbaren Multi-Ebenen-Annotation von gesprochenen Sprachkontaktdaten (Developement of a comparable multi-layered annotation system for spoken contact-language data” (Margo Blevins)
The conference German Abroad 4, scheduled for March 25-27, 2020, in Windhoek, Namibia, has been moved to the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The six TGDP members scheduled to present at the conference are looking forward to presenting their papers at a later time.
The University of Texas at Austin shut down its on-campus operations on March 13, 2020, because of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Austin. The TGDP will continue its interviewing and research activities remotely until it is safe to return to campus.
TGDP member Jim Kearney receives the 2020 H. Bailey Carroll Award from the Texas State Historical Association for the best article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly for 2019. The article, “Conrad Caspar Rordorf: Art, Murder & Intrigue on the Texas Frontier,” appeared in the July 2019 Quarterly.