TGDP member Hans C. Boas is interviewed for the Real Life and Other Fantasies podcast. Listen HERE.
TGDP member Margo Blevins publishes a translation of two letters from original German-speaking immigrant to Texas: “Immigrant Letters from Early Settlers (cont)” in the German-Texan Heritage Society Journal, Volume 45, Number 3, p. 38-45.
TGDP presentation by Ellen Jones at the 47th German Studies Association Annual Conference: “Talking German: How Gender Roles Influence the Continued Loss of Texas German.” Montréal, Canada (October 5-8, 2023).
TGDP presentation by Verena Sauer at the German Abroad 5 conference: “wir schnacken plattdeutsch … but wir sprechen hochdeusch — Eine Analyse des Deutschen in Texas” (‘We schnacken (speak) Low German but we sprechen (speak) High German — An analysis of German in Texas’) Eichstätt and Munich, Germany (October 9-13, 2023)
TGDP presentation by Hans C. Boas at the German Abroad 5 conference: “A frame-semantic account of the preposition bei in Texas German.” Eichstätt and Munich, Germany (October 9-13, 2023)
TGDP presentation by Bettina Lindner-Bornemann & Margo Bevins at the German Abroad 5 conference: “Nominale Possessivkonstruktionen im Texas-German” (‘Nominal possessive constructions in Texas German’). Eichstätt and Munich, Germany (October 9-13, 2023)
TGDP presentation by Matthias Warmuth at the German Abroad 5 conference: “Phonetic Drift and Attrition in Fredericksburg Texas German.” Eichstätt and Munich, Germany (October 9-13, 2023)
TGDP poster presentation by David Huenlich at the German Abroad 5 conference: “Linguistic and Ethnic Boundaries in Texas: The Case of Afro-German contact.” Eichstätt and Munich, Germany (October 9-13, 2023)
TGDP presentation by Thomas Schmidt & Margo Blevins at the German Abroad 5 conference: “Getting Ready for TGDA 2.0 — Enriching the Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses.” Eichstätt and Munich, Germany (October 9-13, 2023)
TGDP member Margo Blevins gave a presentation titled “Making Linguistic Maps” to the Texas German Dialect class taught by Vince Vanderheijden at UT Austin (Oct 3, 2023).