TGDP Publications
Blevins, Margo. (2018). Towards a constructional analysis of the progressive aspect in Texas German. In: Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder (eds.). Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 73-114.
Blevins, Margo (2023). Immigrant Letter from New Braunfels. German-Texan Heritage Society Journal, 45(2), 46-57.
Blevins, Margo (2023). Immigrant Letters from Early Settlers (cont). German-Texan Heritage Society Journal, 45(3), 38-45.
Boas, Hans C. (2002). The Texas German Dialect Archive as a Tool for Analyzing Sound Change. In P. Austin, H. A. Dry, & P. Wittenburg (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 28.1-28.4). Las Palmas, Spain. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2003). Tracing Dialect Death: The Texas German Dialect Project. In J. Larson & M. Paster (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp. 387-398). University of California, Berkeley: Linguistics Department. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2005). A Dialect in Search of its Place: The Use of Texas German in the Public Domain. In C. Cravens & D. Zersen (Eds.), Transcontinental Encounters: Central Europe Meets the American Heartland (pp. 78-102). Austin: Concordia University Press. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2005). Texas German Dialect. In T. Adam (ed.), Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Vol. 3, pp. 1029-1035). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
Boas, Hans C. (2006). From the field to the web: implementing best-practice recommendations in documentary linguistics. Language Resources and Evaluation, 40(2), 153-174. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2009). The Life and Death of Texas German. Durham: Duke University Press.
Boas, Hans C. (2009). Case Loss in Texas German: The Influence of Semantic and Pragmatic Factors. In J. Barðdal & S. Chelliah (Eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case (pp. 347-373). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2010). On the equivalence and multifunctionality of discourse markers in language contact situations. In T. Harden & E. Hentschel (Eds.), 40 Jahre Partikelforschung (pp. 301-315). Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2011). Some Consequences of Case Loss in Texas German. In Cory Yoquelet (ed.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 43-54.
Boas, Hans C. (2020). Zur Vergleichbarkeit von Sprachinseldaten. Ein Plädoyer für eine “bottom-up” Methodologie im Rahmen der Konstruktionsgrammatik und der Frame Semantik (“On comparing speech island data. Developing a bottom-up approach using Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics”). In C. Földes (ed.), Kontaktvarietäten des Deutschen im Ausland. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 66-88. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Hoeder. (2018). Construction Grammar and language contact: An Introduction In: Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder (eds.), Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 5-36.
Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Hoeder (eds.). (2018). Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. vi+316pp.
Boas, Hans C. (2015). Linguistic splits along religious lines: The role of language maintenance among Catholics and Lutherans in Texas. In: P. Rosenberg, K. Jungbluth, and D. Zinkhahn Rhobodes (eds.), Linguistic Constructions of Ethnic Borders, 167-181. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang. [PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce (eds). (2019). New Directions for Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.
Boas, Hans C. (2016). Variation im Texasdeutschen: Implikationen für eine vergleichende Sprachinselforschung (‘Implications for comparable speech island reseach‘). In Alexandra Lenz (ed.), German Abroad. Perspektiven der Variationslinguistik, Sprachkontakt- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung, 11-44. Vienna University Press. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. (2018). A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German. In: Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder (eds.), Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 253-276.
Boas, Hans C. (2018). “Texas.” In A. Plewnia & C. M. Riehl (eds.), Handbuch der deutschen Sprachminderheiten in Übersee. Tübingen: Narr. 171-192. [PDF]
Boas, Hans C., Karen Ewing, Cheryl Moran, and Jana Thompson. (2004). Towards Determining the Influence of Internal and External Factors on Recent Developments in Texas German Phonology. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 10(1), 47-59.
Boas, Hans C. and Matthias Fingerhuth. (2017). “I am proud of my language but I speak it less and less!” – Der Einfluss von Spracheinstellungen und Sprachgebrauch auf den Spracherhalt von Heritage-Sprechern des Texasdeutschen (‘The influence of language perception and use on the language preservation of heritage speakers of Texas German’). Linguistische Berichte 249, 95-121. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. and Matthias Fingerhuth. (2018). Deutsche Sprachinselkorpora im 21. Jahrhundert (‘German speech islands in the 21st century‘). In M. Kupietz & T. Schmidt (eds.), Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020: Korpuslinguistik. Vol. 5. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 125 – 150. [For the open-access eBook click here].
Boas, Hans C. and Katrin Fuchs. (2018). Zum Einfluss des Standarddeutschen auf das Texasdeutsche im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Empirische und methodologische Probleme (‘The influence of standard German on Texas German in the 19th and 20th century: Empirical and methodological problems’). In A. Lenz & A. Plewnia (eds.), Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020: Variation – Norm – Identitaeten. Vol. 4. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 283-304. [for the open-access eBook click here].
Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder (eds.). (2021). Construction in Contact 2: Language Change, Multilingual Practices, and Additional Language Acquisition. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. vii + 437 pp.
Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder. (2021). Widening the scope: Recent trends in Constructional Contact Linguistics. In H.C. Boas & S. Hoeder (eds.), Constructions in Contact 2: Language Change, Multilingual Practices, and Additional Language Acquisition, 2-13. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. (2011). Lexical Developments in Texas German. In M. Putnam (Ed.), Studies on German Language Islands (pp. 129-150). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C., Marc Pierce, and Collin L. Brown. 2014. “On the variability of Texas German wo as a complementizer.” In: STUF – Language Typology and Universals 67(4), 589-611. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C., Marc Pierce, Karen Roesch, Guido Halder, and Hunter Weilbacher. (2010). The Texas German Dialect Archive: A Multimedia Resource for Research, Teaching, and Outreach. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 22(3), 277-296. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. and Sarah Schuchard. (2012). A corpus-based analysis of preterite usage in Texas German. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 1-11. University of California, Berkeley: Linguistics Department. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. (2007). How Universal Is the Pragmatic Detachability Scale? Evidence from Texas German Discourse Markers. In F. Hoyt, N. Seifert, A. Teodorescu, and J. White (Eds.), The Proceedings of the Texas Linguistic Society IX Conference. 33-58. [ PDF ]
Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. (2009). The unexpected survival of German discourse markers in Texas German. In CLS 42-1: The Main Session. Papers from the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 1-15. [ PDF ]
Dunt, Detlef, James C. Kearney, and Geir Bentzen (eds.), Anders Saustrup (trans.) (1834 / 2017). Journey to Texas, 1833. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Dux, Ryan. (2017). Classifying Language Contact Phenomena: English Verbs in Texas German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29.4, 379-430. [ PDF ]
Dux, Ryan. (2018). Texas German word order constructions in contact. In: Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Hoeder (eds.), Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 211-249.
Jones, Ellen (2023). Gender roles and language loss: An analysis of language attitudes and the potential for gender-influenced language maintenance and loss among Texas German. Yearbook of German-American Studies 56, 111-129. [PDF]
Kearney, James. (2019). “The Murder of Conrad Caspar Rordorf: Art, Violence, and Intrigue on the Texas Frontier,” in Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXXIII, No. 1, 1-28.
Kearney, James (editor & translator) (2020) The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story by William Trenckmann. State House Press.
Fuchs, Katrin. (2018). Word order in dependent clauses in Texas German. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik LXXXIV, 1-19. [ PDF ]
Pierce, Marc. (2019). Language Death and Language Revival: Contrasting Manx and Texas German. In Charles MacQuarrie & Joseph Nagy (eds) The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea: Manannán and his Neighbors. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas, and Glenn Gilbert. (2019). When is a dissertation not a dissertation? On Eikel 1954. In: Yearbook of German-American Studies 53, 187-196. [ PDF ]
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas, and Glenn Gilbert. (2023). Fred Eikel and the Study of Texas German. Yearbook of German-American Studies 56, 131-147. [ PDF ]
Pierce, Marc, Boas, Hans C., and Karen Roesch. 2015. “The history of front rounded vowels in New Braunfels German.” In: J.B. Johannessen and J.C. Salmons (eds.), Germanic Heritage Languages in North America. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 118–131. [ PDF ]
Roesch, Karen. (2012). Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Warmuth, Matthias. (2021). Viewing Texas Germans through the lens of transnationalism: A new form of transmigrant? International Migration. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12832 [ PDF ]
Warmuth, Matthias (2022). Rhotics, /u:/, and diphthongization in New Braunfels German. Linguistics Vanguard. [PDF]
Weilbacher, Hunter. (2011). Texas German discourse pragmatics: A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now. In M. Putnam (Ed.), Studies on German Language Islands (pp. 455-474). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
TGDP Presentations
Amick, Abbie, Margo Blevins, Hans Boas, & Marc Pierce “The Texas German and the Texas German Dialect Project.” Barbara Berthold’s “Texas German Experiences” class at UT Arlington, March 2021.
Berthold, Barbara and Hans C. Boas. “German Heritage in Today’s Classroom.” The 2018 Annual Conference of the German-Texan Heritage Society in Galveston, TX, September 2018.
Berthold, Barbara, Hans C. Boas, and Margo Blevins. “Wilkommen, y’all – German Texas experiences in the language classroom: A curriculum development project initiated by the Texas German Dialect Project.” German Texas Heritage Society Annual Conference & American Association of German Teachers Conference in Temple, Texas, September 2019.
Blevins, Margo. Progressive aspect in Texas German,” 4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 2013.
Blevins, Margo. “The search for Texas German Speakers.” The Cherry Mountain Community Club, October 2018.
Blevins, Margo. “Normalization of Language Contact Data.” The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 2019.
Blevins, Margo. “Orthographic Normalization of Language Contact Data.” The workshop German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, July 2019.
Blevins, Margo. “Die orthographische Normalisierung deutschsprachiger Kontaktvarietät-Daten” (On the orthographic normalization of data from German-based contact varieties).” The Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, Germany, July 2019.
Blevins, Margo. “Entwicklung einer vergleichbaren Multi-Ebenen Annotation von gesprochenen Sprachkontaktdaten” (Development of a comparative multi-layer annotation system for spoken language). Poster. The Annual Conference of the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, Germany, March 2020.
Blevins, Margo. “The language-tagging and normalization of spoken mixed-language data.” The Pro-Seminar of the Department of Germanic Studies. October 2021.
Blevins, Margo. “Die orthographische Normalisierung deutschsprachiger Kontaktvarietät-Daten” (The orthographic normalization of German language contact variety data). IDS Jahrestagung. March 2022.
Blevins, Margo. “Language-tagging system for contact language varieties: a Texas German case study” 22nd Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX: (Margo Blevins). February 17-18, 2023. [PDF]
Blevins, Margo. “Introduction to the Texas German Sample Corpus” The Netzwerk deutsche Sprachminderheitenforschung ‘Network for Research on German as Minority Language’ colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. March 2023.
Blevins, Margo. “Part of speech tagging contact language varieties: A Texas German case study.” The Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023. April 21, 2023.
Blevins, Margo. “Texas German Corpora & Materials.” Focus on Minority Languages Workshop at UT Austin. August 23, 2023.
Blevins, Margo. “Texas German and the Texas German Dialect Project.” Vince Vanderheijden’s Texas German Dialect class at UT Austin. September 21, 2023.
Blevins, Margo. “Introduction to Texas German.” Lars Hinrichs’s Multilingual Texas class at UT Austin. September 14, 2023.
Blevins. Margo. “Making Linguistic Maps.” Vince Vanderheijden’s Texas German Dialect class at UT Austin. October 3, 2023.
Blevins, Margo and Hans C. Boas. “The Texas German Dialect Project: Preserving Texas History, Language, and Culture for Future Generations.” TGDP presentations at the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site in Stonewall, TX, March 2019.
Blevins, Margo and Hans C. Boas. “The Texas German Dialect Project: Preserving Texas History, Language, and Culture for Future Generations.” The Winedale Historical Complex in Fayette County, December 2019.
Blevins, Margo and Oliver Bunk. “V3 in Texas German.” The Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 7), at the University of Georgia, Athens, October 2016.
Blevins, Margo and Roslyn Burns. “Lexical Borrowing in Texas German.” The 42nd Annual Meeting of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft” (DGfS; Linguistic Society of Germany), March 2020.
Blevins, Margo, Verena Sauer, Jana Weiss, Hans Boas. “Texas German voices: Making 19th and 20th century Texas German letters available.” The 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies. April 28, 2023.
Blevins, Margo, Matthias Warmuth and Hans C. Boas. “The Texas German Dialect Project: Preserving Texas History, Language, and Culture for Future Generations.” The Annual Convention of the Texas German Society at the Cat Spring Agricultural Hall in Cat Spring, TX, March 2019.
Boas, Hans C. “Tracing Dialect Death: The Texas German Dialect Project,” 28th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California, February 2002.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Archive as a Tool for analyzing Sound Change,” International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, held in conjunction with LREC 2002. Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002.
Boas, Hans C. “How Technology helps with preserving Dying Dialects,” International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, July 2002.
Boas, Hans C. “The Evolution of Texas German,” Class Presentation in Evolutionary Biology Class taught by Art Woods. The University of Texas at Austin, October 2002.
Boas, Hans C. “The Current State of Texas German,” Invited Plenary Speaker at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Comal County Genealogy Society, New Braunfels, Texas, October 2002.
Boas, Hans. C. “The Texas German Dialect: Past, Present, Future.” Department of Germanic Studies’ summer lecturer series, July 2020. [recording available here]
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German Language and Culture,” Class Presentation at New Texas Forum Seminar taught by Lucia Gilbert and Pauline Strong. The University of Texas at Austin, October 2002.
Boas, Hans C. “Building a Multi-Media Archive of Texas German,” Linguistics Circle, The University of Texas at Austin, November 2002.
Boas, Hans C. “Rapid Case Loss as an Indicator for Dialect Death in Texas German,” 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California, February 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “What Happens when Dialects Die? The Future of Texas German,” Invited Guest Speaker at the Monthly Meeting of the New Braunfels German-American Society, New Braunfels, Texas, April 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “Why is Texas German so unique?” Invited Speaker at the Monthly Meeting of the Genealogical Society of Washington County, Brenham, TX, June 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “Social Factors Contributing to the Death of Texas German,” 7th International Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. Broome, Australia, September 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “What is happening with Texas German?” Invited Plenary Speaker at the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the German-Texas Heritage Society, New Braunfels, TX, October 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” Invited Speaker at the monthly meeting of the Heart of Central Texas chapter of the Texas German Society, Waco, TX, October 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German and its Donor Dialects,” German Department, University of Göttingen, Germany, December 2003.
Boas, Hans C. “Tracing Dialect Death in Texas,” Invited Speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Texan-Wendish Society, Serbin, TX. February 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German -or- The Dialect that never happened,” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Berkeley, CA, April 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German as Lingua Franca,” International Videoconference on the Unique Impact of Central European Immigration in New World Settlements, Concordia University, Austin, TX, October 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “Preserving Texas German for Future Generation,” Invited Speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Golden Crescent Chapter of the Texas German Society, Victoria, TX, October 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “Implementing Best-practice Recommendations in Documentary Linguistics: The Texas German Dialect Project,” First Annual Rice-UT Austin Linguistics Workshop on Language in Use. Rice University, Houston, TX, October 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” Invited Speaker at the monthly meeting of the German-Texan Heritage Society, Austin, TX, November 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” Departmental Roundtable, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, November 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “Saving Endangered Dialects,” Linguistics Colloquium, Linguistics Department, University of Texas at Austin, November 2004.
Boas, Hans C. “What happened to Texas German?” Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Oakland, CA, January 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “The Future of the Texas German Dialect Project,” Invited Speaker at the Sophienburg Archive, New Braunfels, TX, February 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “Das Texas-Deutsche Dialekt Projekt,” Invited talk at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language), Mannheim, Germany, July 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German in Harris County,” Invited Speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Harris County Chapter of the Texas German Society, Houston, TX, September 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “New Braunfels German 50 years later,” Invited Speaker at the monthly meeting of the New Braunfels Conservation Society, New Braunfels, TX, September 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Archive: Access rights and permission,” Invited talk at the 3rd DELAMAN workshop on “Managing access and intellectual property rights.” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, November 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “Funding for the Texas German Dialect Archive,” Invited Speaker at the meeting of the German-American Chamber of Commerce, Houston, TX, November 2005.
Boas, Hans C. “The Future of the Texas German Dialect Project,” Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives, La Grange, TX, March 2006.
Boas, Hans C. “Why is Texas German different?” Monthly Meeting of the La Grange chapter of the Texas German Society, La Grange, TX, May 2006.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” Jank Family Reunion, Meyersville, TX, June 2006.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” Meeting of the College of Liberal Arts Leadership Council, UT Austin, Austin, TX, September 2006.
Boas, Hans C. “Language Shift and the Future of the Texas German Dialect,” Monthly Speaker Series at the Headquarters of the GTHS (German Texan Heritage Society), Austin, TX, April 2007.
Boas, Hans C. “Why are there so many English words in Texas German?” Monthly Meeting of the Burton Lion’s Club, Burton, TX, June 2007.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project: What have we learned over the past six years?” Workshop of the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, UT Austin, Austin, TX, June 2007.
Boas, Hans C. “What will be left of the German heritage in Texas after the Texas German dialect has died out?” German-Texan Heritage Society, San Antonio, TX, August 2007.
Boas, Hans C. “What have we learned about Texas German?” Monthly Meeting of the German Texan Society Golden Crescent Chapter, Waco, TX, September 2007.
Boas, Hans C. “The future of the Texas German Dialect,” Meeting of the Fredericksburg Rotary Club, Fredericksburg, TX, October 2007.
Boas, Hans C. “German-American Heritage Preservation in the 21st Century,” Max-Kade Institute, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, February 2008.
Boas, Hans C. “Discourse Markers in German-American Dialects,” Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, February 2008.
Boas, Hans C. “Why is Texas German dying?” Germanic Studies Speakers Series, Department of Germanic Studies, UT Austin, Austin, TX, March 2008.
Boas, Hans C. “Documenting the Language of Cowboys in Lederhosen: The Texas German Dialect Project,” University of North Texas, Denton, TX, March 2008.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German heritage preservation in the 21st Century,” St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Austin, TX, January 2009.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German heritage preservation in the 21st Century,” Austin Saengerrunde, Austin, TX, January 2009.
Boas, Hans C. “The distribution of English discourse markers in Texas German,” 40 Years of Particle Research, Berne, Switzerland, February 2009.
Boas, Hans C. “The functions and meanings of the discourse marker “well” in Texas German,” Departmental Lecture Series of the Department of Germanic Studies, UT Austin, Austin, TX, April 2009.
Boas, Hans C. “Book reading of The life and death of Texas German,” Annual Convention of the German Texan Heritage Society, Round Rock, TX, October 2009.
Boas, Hans C. “Why is Texas German dying?” Annual Meeting of the New Braunfels Historical Society, New Braunfels, TX, November 2009.
Boas, Hans C. “A constructional account of discourse particles in Texas German,” International Workshop on Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, July 2010.
Boas, Hans C. “Language, Religion, and Immigration: Texas Germans 1850-1950,” Migration, Religion and Germany Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 2011.
Boas, Hans C. “Variation in Texas German,” Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 2011.
Boas, Hans C. “Multilingual policies in Texas over the past two centuries,” Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, July 2011.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project: What have we learned over the first ten years?” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, December 2011.
Boas, Hans C. “Ten years of documenting Texas German,” Williamson County Museum in Georgetown, Texas, December 2011.
Boas, Hans C. “Variation in Texas German,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, December 2011.
Boas, Hans C. “The German language in Texas: 1850 – 2050,” Lakeway Men’s Club Breakfast Meeting, February 2012.
Boas, Hans C. “Variation in Texas German,” Research Colloquium Migration and Minorities, Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, June 2012.
Boas, Hans C. “Language Variation in Texas German: Internal and External Factors,” University of Munich, Germany, July 2012.
Boas, Hans C. “Language Contact in Texas: Internal and External Perspectives,” Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Center for General Linguistics), Berlin, Germany, July 2012.
Boas, Hans C. “Language Variation in Texas German: Internal and External Factors,” University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, July 2012.
Boas, Hans C. “Language change in Texas German: Internal vs. External Factors,” University of Gothenburg, Sweden, October 2012.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German as a Heritage Language in the 21st Century: Why is it dying out?” University of Gothenburg, Sweden, October 2012.
Boas, Hans C.” Internal and external factors influencing language change in Texas German,” University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, May 2013.
Boas, Hans C. “Linguistic splits along linguistic lines: The role of language maintenance among Lutherans and Catholics in Texas 1850 – 1950,” Conference on Linguistic Construction of Social Boundaries, Slubice/Poland and Frankfurt (Oder)/Germany, August 2013.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German as a heritage language: Why is it dying out?” Meeting of the Pacific Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, November 2013.
Boas, Hans C. “Semantic and syntactic change in language contact: A constructional analysis of Texas German mit(‘with’),” International Symposium Contrastive Linguistics and Diachrony (CoLiDi), University of Gent, Belgium, February 2014.
Boas, Hans C. “A constructional approach to Texas German mit (“with”).” The 21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference in Provo, UT, May 2015.
Boas, Hans C. “Culture in Language – The Texas German Dialect Project.” The Annual Meeting of the German-Texan Heritage Society in Austin, TX, September 2015.
Boas, Hans C. “Preservation of German-American dialects in the 21st century.” The Center for Volga-German Studies at Concordia University, Portland, OR, November 2015.
Boas, Hans C. “Frames and Constructions in Spoken Texas German.” The International Workshop “Kognition und Konversation” (Cognition and Conversation) at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany, December 2015.
Boas, Hans C. “Culture in Language: The Texas German Dialect Project.” The monthly meeting of the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association in Houston, TX, January 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “Language change and language contact: A constructional analysis of mit in Texas German.” The international workshop on Historical Construction Grammar at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany, February 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “15 years of TGDP research on New Braunfels German: What have we learned?” The German-American Society of New Braunfels, TX, February 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German Language, Culture, and Music: 1850 -2015.” The UT College of Liberal Arts Academic Advising Retreat, Austin Saengerrunde Building, March 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “Internal and external factors in Texas German language variation.” The Linguistics Department of the University of Chicago, IL, April 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “On the borrowing of English discourse markers into Texas German and Texas Spanish.” The International Workshop on Discourse Analysis, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “Vergleichende Sprachinselforschung im 21. Jahrhundert” (Comparative speech island research in the 21st century). The Proseminar lecture series in the Department of Germanic Studies, UT Austin, TX, October 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “Complexity and simplification in Texas German.” The University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 2016.
Boas, Hans C. “Zum Texas Deutschen” (On Texas German). Tongji University (Shanghai, P.R. China), May 2017.
Boas, Hans C. “Sprachwandel im Texasdeutschen: Interne und externe Faktoren.” TGDP presentation at the University of Potsdam, Germany, June 2017.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German language, culture, and history.” The monthly meeting of Andrew Carruthers Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Austin, TX, October 2017.
Boas, Hans C. “Texas German in the 21st century: Why is it dying out?” The Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017.
Boas, Hans C. “A new approach towards a systematic comparison of German-Language Islands.” German Abroad 3 at University of Erfurt, Germany, March 2018.
Boas, Hans C. “A new approach towards a systematic comparison of German-Language Islands.” The Germanic Linguistics Roundtable at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, April 2018.
Boas, Hans C. “Documenting Texas German.” Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 2019.
Boas, Hans C. “Using Oral History Recordings as the Basis for Research and Teaching.” The 43th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies, Madison, WI, April 2019.
Boas, Hans C. “A constructional approach to case syncretism in Texas German.” The workshop German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, July 2019.
Boas, Hans C. “Das Texas Deutsche zwischen Sprachkontakt und Sprachtod” (Texas German between language contact and language death). The Institute for German Studies at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, October 2019.
Boas, Hans C. “The life and death of Texas German.” TGDP presentation at Triumphant Love Lutheran Church in Austin, TX, January 2020.
Boas, Hans. C. “The Texas German Dialect Project.” Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Docents, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, April 2021. Held remotely via Zoom.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project: What we have learned in the first 20 years.” The German Club of Bellaire High School in Houston, May 2021. Held remotely via Zoom.
Boas, Hans C. “The forms, meanings, and functions of mit in Texas German.” The Conference German Abroad 4 Conference. Windhoek, Namibia. September, 2021. Held remotely via Zoom.
Boas, Hans C. “On determining the influence of Standard German on Texas German before 1918.” Rootedness and Acculturation: Experiences from German Immigrant Communities in the USA (1883-1918). University of Bordeaux, France. October 2021.
Boas, Hans C. “Zur Dokumentation und Erforschung deutschsprachiger Pressetexte in Texas 1852-1957″ (On documenting and exploring German-language newspaper texts in Texas 1852-1957). The International Conference on the German Language in Newspapers Abroad (Deutsche Pressesprache im Ausland). University of Erfurt, Germany. February 2022.
Boas, Hans C. “On comparing extraterritorial German contact varieties around the world.” The conference on Deutsche Sprachminderheiten weltweit kontrastiv: Fallstudien, Methoden und Korpora (German language minorities worldwide from a contrastive perspective: Case studies, methods, and corpora). The Otto-Friedrich-Universitaet in Bamberg, Germany. March 2022.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project 2001-2021” (following the screening of “All Gut Things”). Texas A&M University. April 2022.
Boas, Hans C. “Wissen mit und ohne Wörterbücher: Rekonstruktion von texanischen Identitäten vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert” (Knowledge with and without dictionaries: Reconstruction of Texan identities from the 19th to the 21st century). The Goettingen Academy of Sciences, Germany. May 2022.
Boas, Hans C. “Zur Bedeutung deutscher Woerter im Texas-Deutschen” (‘On the meaning of German words in Texas German’). The University of Erfurt, Germany. October 12, 2022.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project.” The Dallas Goethe Center (online via Zoom. January 26, 2023.
Boas, Hans. C. “Documenting Texas German: Methodology, Insights, and Challenges” Furman University. January 30, 2023.
Boas, Hans C. “From language documentation to dictionary compilation: On the structure of a Texas German Dictionary.” The 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies. April 28, 2023.
Boas, Hans C. Boas. “The Texas German Dialect Project.” The UT OLLI Program “The German Influence on Texas Part II.” April 7, 2023.
Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Dialect Project.” Focus on Minority Languages Workshop at UT Austin. August 21, 2023.
Boas, Hans C. “A frame-semantic account of the preposition bei in Texas German.” German Abroad 5, Eichstätt and Munich, Germany. October 9-13, 2023.
Boas, Hans C., Karen Ewing, Cheryl Heckman, and Jana Thompson. “When Phonology goes haywire in Dying Languages: The Role of external and internal factors in recent developments in Texas German,” 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2003.
Boas, Hans C. and Margo Blevins “The Texas German Dialect Project.” The COLING Project Workshop on Innovative Teaching Methodologies & Language Documentation, University of Texas at Austin, TX, December 2019.
Boas, Hans C. and Jane Grabowski “Texas German as a Heritage Language in the 21st Century: Why is it dying out?” Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 2012.
Boas, Hans C. and Guido Halder. “The Texas German Dialect Archive,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Boas, Hans C. and Todd Krause. “A new approach towards a systematic comparison on German Language Islands.” The 22nd Germanic Linguistics Association Conference at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2016.
Boas, Hans C., Levina, Ekaterina. “A frame-semantic account of the preposition mit in Texas German.” The Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023. April 21, 2023.
Boas, Hans C., Guido Halder, Marc Pierce, Karen Roesch, and Hunter Weilbacher. “The Texas German Dialect Archive: A multi-media resource for Germanic Linguistics,” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 2008.
Boas, Hans C., Guido Halder, Marc Pierce, Karen Roesch, and Hunter Weilbacher. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, UW Madison, Madison, WI, May 2008.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. “The Texas German Dialect Archive,” 32nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Williamsburg, VA, April 2008.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. “English lexical borrowings in Texas German,” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Banff, Canada, May 2009.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. “Syntactic variation in German-American dialects: The for …zu construction in Texas German.” Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 2012.
Boas, Hans and Marc Pierce. “The Texas German Dialect Archive: Fourteen Years Later.” The 130th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Vancouver, BC, January 2015.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. “The Texas German Dialect Project in 2015.” The 39th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies in St. Louis, MO, April 2015.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. “Identity versus social networks in Texas German.” The 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX, January 2016.
Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce. “Investigating Texas German in the 21st Century.” The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX, April 2016.
Boas, Hans C., Marc Pierce, Ryan Dux, and Adams Laborde. “On bei in Texas German,” Forum for Germanic Language Studies 11, Cambridge, United Kingdom, January 2014.
Boas, Hans C., Marc Pierce, Ryan Dux, and Adams LaBorde. “Language contact and prepositions in Texas German: The case of bei,” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 2014.
Boas, Hans C., Marc Pierce, Ryan Dux, and Adams LaBorde. “The genitive in Texas German: Leveling, accommodation, and the influence of Standard German,” Germanic Genitives Workshop, Free University, Berlin, Germany, May 2014.
Boas, Hans C., Marc Pierce and Karen Roesch. “Reassessing the impact of World War I on Texas German.” The 42nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 2018.
Boas, Hans C. and Sarah Schuchard. “A corpus-based investigation of preterite loss in Texas German: Evidence for Language Loss?” 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 2008.
Boas, Hans C. & John Stewart “The Texas-German Dialect Archive,” Poster Presentation at the Six Other Flags over Texas Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, March 2003.
Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. “Wir haben die Car in die Garage gemoved, y’know? -or- The syntax of bilingual discourse markers in Texas German,” Texas Linguistic Society 9, Austin, TX, November 2005.
Boas, Hans C. and Hunter Weilbacher. “Documenting Diaspora Experiences: The Texas German Dialect Archive”, Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and their Descendents, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 2006.
Dux, Ryan and Hans C. Boas. “The Texas German Dialect,” Blanton Museum’s colloquium on German Heritage in Central Texas, Austin, TX, November 2013.
Dux, Ryan. “Classifying language contact phenomena: English verbs in Texas German,” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 2014.
Dux, Ryan and Hans C. Boas. “The Texas German Dialect Project: What have we learned over the past 13 years?” Waco chapter of the Texas German Society, Waco, TX, April 2014.
Dux, Ryan. “The Texas German Dialect Project: Preserving our Heritage for Future Generations.” The monthly meeting of the Columbus Chapter of the Texas German Society, April 2015.
Dux, Ryan. “The Texas German Dialect Project: Preserving our Heritage for Future Generations.” The monthly meeting of the Victoria Chapter of the Texas German Society, April 2015.
Dux, Ryan. “Central Wisconsin Pomeranian Low German: Language contact in a close-knit rural community.” The 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX, January 2016.
Dux, Ryan. “How much of Texas German is English?” The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX, April 2016.
Dux, Ryan & Hans C. Boas. “Causative, resultative, and related argument structure constructions with machen in Texas German.” The 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar. Antwerp, Belgium, August, 2021.
Fingerhuth, Matthias. “Semantic transference in Texas German: Dialectal or idiolectal feature?” 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, Linguistic Varieties and Variation, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 2014.
Fingerhuth, Matthias. “Semantic Transfer in Texas German.” The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX, April 2016.
Fingerhuth, Matthias. “Semantic transference in Barossa German and Texas German.” German Abroad 2 at the University of Texas at Austin, November 2016.
Fingerhuth, Matthias and Alexander Lorenz. “Lost and found: case syncretism and variation in Texas German.” German Abroad 2 at the University of Texas at Austin, November 2016.
Fingerhuth, Matthias. “Zur Geschichte der Affrikata /pf/ im Texasdeutschen.” The 6th congress of the International Society for German Dialectology (6. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD)) in Marburg, Germany, September 2018.
Fingerhuth, Matthias. “Texas – ein totes Zentrum des plurizentrischen Deutschen?” German Abroad 3 at the University of Erfurt, Germany, March 2018.
Harris, Jansen and Julia Zerger. “Which factors determine lexical attrition in Texas German?” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Huenlich, David. “The Unbroken Treaty, German Language Game-Learning through Role Playing.” The Annual Meeting of the German-Texan Heritage Society in Austin, TX, September 2015.
Huenlich, David. “Documenting Texas German language, culture, and heritage.” The Cleng Peerson Norwegian Symposium in Clifton, TX, October 2015.
Huenlich, David. “White slaves and black German speakers? Towards a history of German-American and African-American contact in Texas.” German Abroad 2 at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, November 2016.
Huenlich, David. “Linguistic and Ethnic Boundaries in Texas: The Case of Afro-German contact.” (Poster). German Abroad 5, Eichstätt and Munich, Germany. October 9-13, 2023.
Huenlich, David and Adams LaBorde. “Teaching history through language games: The German-Comanche Treaty.” The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX, April 2016.
Jones, Ellen. “The Influence of Gender Roles on Language Maintenance and Language Loss: A New Perspective from Texas German.” The conference on Deutsche Sprachminderheiten weltweit kontrastiv: Fallstudien, Methoden und Korpora (German language minorities worldwide from a contrastive perspective: Case studies, methods, and corpora). The Otto-Friedrich-Universitaet in Bamberg, Germany. March 2022.
Jones, Ellen. “Gender roles and language loss: An analysis of language attitudes and the potential for gender-influenced language maintenance and loss among Texas Germans.” The 46th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies. University of Iowa, Iowa City. April 2022.
Jones, Ellen. “Soziolinguistische Methoden zur Datensammlung: Beispiele aus dem Texas German Dialect Project” (‘Sociolinguistic methods for data collection: Examples from the Texas German Dialect Project’). The Netzwerk deutsche Sprachminderheitenforschung ‘Network for Research on German as Minority Language’ colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. March 2023.
Jones, Ellen. “Identity Patterns/Identitätsmuster der Texasdeutschen.” Focus on Minority Languages Workshop at UT Austin. August 22, 2023.
Jones, Ellen. “Talking German: How Gender Roles Influence the Continued Loss of Texas German.” The 47th German Studies Association Annual Conference: Montréal, Canada. October 5-8, 2023.
Kearney, James. “Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg,” German Free School, Austin, TX, September 2012.
Kearney, James. Double Jeopardy: Served in WWII; Recalled in Korea,” East Texas Historical Society Annual Meeting, Nacogdoches, TX, September 2012.
Kearney, James. “The Society for the Protection of German Emigrants in Texas: Fact and Fiction,” Department of Germanic Studies, UT Austin, Austin, TX, October 2012.
Kearney, James. “Observations on the SPGET,” Gillespie County Historical Association, Fredericksburg, TX, October 2012.
Kearney, James. “From Thucydides to Texas,” Books in the Basin Festival, Meet the Authors, Odessa, TX, October 2012.
Kearney, James. “From Nassau to Fredericksburg; How one Thing Leads to Another,” Texas German Society, Columbus, TX, October 2012.
Kearney, James. “The Cultural Influence of German Texans.” The Annual Meeting of the German-Texan Heritage Society in Austin, TX, September 2015.
Kearney, James. “German Texans and Public Education.” The Annual Meeting of the German-Texan Heritage Society in Austin, TX, September 2015.
Kearney, James. “Friedrich Ernst, Detlef Dunt, and German immigration to south-central Texas in the 19th century.” The Central Texas Historical Conference in Washington-on-the-Brazos, TX, October 2015.
Kearney, James. “Patterns of German Immigration to Texas and Migrations within Texas in the late 19th Century.” The Cleng Peerson Norwegian Symposium in Clifton, TX, October 2015.
Kearney, James. “Germans in the Texas War of Independence.” The UT Germanic Studies Lecture Series, March 2021.
LaBorde, Adams, Devon Donohue-Bergeler and David Huenlich. “Unbroken Treaty: Deutsch lernen als Rollenspiel” (Unbroken Treaty: Learning German through role-playing). The Texas Joint Chapter Meeting 2015 of the American Association of Teachers of German, Temple, TX, September 2015.
LaBorde, Adams and David Huenlich. “The unbroken Treaty: Learning language through role-play.” The 21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference in Provo, UT, May 2015.
Lindner-Bornemann, Bettina, Margo Blevins “Nominale Possessivkonstruktionen im Texas-German” (‘Nominal possessive constructions in Texas German’). German Abroad 5, Eichstätt and Munich, Germany. October 9-13, 2023.
Lorenz, Alexander. “The Pedagogical Applications of the Texas German Dialect Archive (TGDA)” The biennial Texas American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) in Round Rock, TX, September 2017.
Lorenz, Alexander. “Das wandernde Volk. German Migration to Texas, Cultural and Linguistic Similarities and Differences” The Annual Stonewall Heritage Society Meeting in Stonewall, TX, October 2017.
Lorenz, Alexander. “Teaching Texas German: Authentic Language in the German Classroom.” The annual American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) conference, November 2017.
Lorenz, Alexander. “The Texas German Story: Preserving Texas History, Language, and Culture.” Christ the King Lutheran Church Assembly in Universal City, TX, February 2018.
Pierce, Marc. “Language Contact and the History of /pf/ in Texas German.” The workshop German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, July 2019.
Pierce, Marc. “The history of /pf/ in New Braunfels German: Another case of rule inversion?” Poster. The Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, December 2019.
Pierce, Marc. “Contact with English and the history of /pf/ in Texas German.” Poster. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, January 2020.
Pierce, Marc. “The history of /pf/ in Texas German.” The Conference German Abroad 4 Conference. Windhoek, Namibia. September 2021. Held remotely via Zoom.
Pierce, Marc. “On the reliability of Fred Eikel’s New Braunfels German Data.” The 46th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies. University of Iowa, Iowa City. April 2022.
Pierce, Marc. “Untangling the History of Dorsal Fricatives in Texas German.” Focus on Minority Languages Workshop at UT Austin. August 22, 2023.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “The History of English Influence on Texas German,” 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2012.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “Social Networks and Language Change in Texas German: A Case Study,” Symposium about Language and Society Austin XIII at The University of Texas at Austin, April 2013.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “Gender assignment in Texas German,” 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2013.
Pierce, Marc and Hans Boas. “The for … zu construction in Texas German.” The AMC Symposium at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2016.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “Investigating Texas German in the 21st Century.” The 2016 Annual Conference of the German-Texan Heritage Society in La Grange, Texas, September 2016.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “Social networks and language change in New Braunfels German: a case study.” TGDP presentation at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Austin TX, January 2017.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “Is Texas German a creole?” TGDP presentation at the winter meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Austin TX, January 2017.
Pierce, Marc and Hans C. Boas. “Social networks and lexical borrowings in Texas German.” The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 2017.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas and Margo Blevins. “Is Texas German a Creole?” Poster. The Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 7), at the University of Georgia, Athens, October 2016.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas, and Margo Blevins. “On the Possible Creole Status of Texas German.” The 43th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies, Madison, WI, April 2019.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas, and Ryan Dux. “English Influence on Texas German,” Workshop on Structural Changes in Heritage Languages, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, January 2013.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas, & Glenn Gilbert. “Fred Eikel and the Study of Texas German.” The 45th Annual Symposium, Society for German-American Studies, April 2021. Held remotely via Zoom.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas and Karen Roesch. “Plural formation in Texas German.” The 24th Germanic Linguistic Annual Conference at Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, May 2018.
Pierce, Marc, Hans Boas, Matthias Warmuth. “Monosyllables in Texas German.” The 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies. April 28, 2023.
Roesch, Karen. “Viva la kleine Alsace!” (‘Long live little Alsace!’). TGDP presentation at the 2016 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Austin, TX, January 2016.
Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas, and Karen Roesch. “Plural Formation in Texas German,” Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 2012.
Reher, Caroline. “Relative clauses in extraterritorial varieties of German – A comparative corpus-linguistic investigation.” Dept. of Germanic Studies, UT Austin. April 12, 2023.
Roesch, Karen. “Texas Alsatians get tough: Language attitudes in Castroville, Texas,” 32nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Williamsburg, VA, April 2008.
Roesch, Karen. “The last Alsatian Cowboys?” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 2008.
Roesch, Karen. “Linguistic variants as sociolinguistic markers in Texas Alsatian.” The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX, April 2016.
Roesch, Karen. “Dative case versus accusative case in Texas German: The case of Texas Alsatian.” German Abroad 2 at the University of Texas at Austin, November 2016.
Roesch, Karen. ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’: Language Attitudes in Castroville, Texas,” 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, UW Madison, Madison, WI, May 2008.
Roesch, Karen. “Revisiting Case Loss in Texas German Dialects: Texas Alsatian vs. Texas German,” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, UI Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, April 2012.
Roesch, Karen. “Case Loss in Texas Alsatian and Texas German: External vs. Internal Factors,” Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 2012.
Roesch, Karen. “Texas Germans Get Tough: Case Maintenance in Texas Alsatian,” Germanic Studies Speaker Series, UT Austin, Austin, TX, February 2008.
Roesch, Karen. “The Last Alsatian Cowboy: Case Maintenance in Texas Alsatian,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Sauer, Verena. “Wir schnacken plattdeutsch … but wir sprechen hochdeutsch” – Eine Analyse des Deutschen in Texas. UT Austin. December 8, 2022.
Sauer, Verena. “A cognitive portrait of Texas German.” The Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023. April 22, 2023.
Sauer, Verena. “„wir haben hier immer gesagt der war ein Deutscher verderber“ – Attitudes towards Texas German.” Focus on Minority Languages Workshop at UT Austin. August 22, 2023.
Sauer, Verena. “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’). German Abroad 5, Eichstätt and Munich, Germany. October 9-13, 2023.
Sauer, Verena, Margo Blevins, Hans Boas, Jana Weiss. “Texas German voices from historical letters: An interdisciplinary project to collect, digitize, and archive 19th and 20th century Texas German” 22nd Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. February 17-18, 2023.
Schuchard, Sarah. “A corpus-based study of declining preterite usage in Texas German,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Schmidt, Thomas, Margo Blevins, Hans Boas. “Getting Ready for TGDA 2.0 — Enriching the Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses.” German Abroad 5, Eichstätt and Munich, Germany. October 9-13, 2023.
Shaw, Kathleen. “Language Policies, Attitudes and the Case of Texas German,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Van der Heijden, Vincent. “The feminine tendency of English loanwords in Texas German,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Warmuth, Matthias. “Texas Germans and Transnationalism.” The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 2019.
Warmuth, Matthas. “The diphthongization of [e:] and [o:] in Texas German.” The 25th LIPP Symposium “Language Variation: Research, Models, and Perspectives” at the Ludwig Maximiliam University of Munich, Germany, June 2018.
Warmuth, Matthias. “The diphthongization of [e:] and [o:] in Texas German.” The Germanic Linguistics Roundtable at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, April 2018.
Warmuth, Matthias. “Sound change in a moribund dialect: The case of Texas German.” The Conference German Abroad 4 Conference. Windhoek, Namibia. September 2021. Held remotely via Zoom.
Warmuth, Matthias. “Rhotics, /u:/, and diphthongization in New Braunfels Texas German.” The New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49 Conference. Austin, Texas. October 2021. Held virtually.
Warmuth, Matthias. “Back vowel variation in Texas German: The case of /u:/.” The Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023. April 21, 2023.
Warmuth, Matthias. “Phonetic Drift and Attrition in Fredericksburg Texas German.” German Abroad 5, Eichstätt and Munich, Germany. October 9-13, 2023.
Warmuth, Matthias, Ellen Jones. “Gender roles, language attitudes, and language loss in Fredericksburg and New Braunfels Texas German.” The Germanic Linguistics Association Conference (GLAC) 2023. April 21, 2023.
Warmuth, Matthias & Marc Pierce. “Rhotics and Laterals in Texas German.” The 7th International Congress of the Society of German Dialectology at the University of Salzburg, Austria. July 2022.
Weilbacher, Hunter. “Das weiss ich anyhow nicht: the syntax of the bilingual discourse markers anyway and anyhow in Texas German.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 2008.
Weilbacher, Hunter. “Usage and replacement of the preposition ‘for’ in Texas German,” 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, UW Madison, Madison, WI, May 2008.
Weilbacher, Hunter. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” Roeckne Historical Association Meeting, Roeckne, TX, October 2007.
Weilbacher, Hunter. “The Texas German Dialect Project,” German-American Day 2007, Texas German Society, Texas Blackland Chapter, Temple, TX, October 2007.
Weilbacher, Hunter. “Usage and replacement of the preposition ‘for’ in Texas German,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, CO, September 2007.
Wyatt, Zoë. “The phonetics of front vowels in New Braunfels Texas German.” The 23rd Germanic Linguistics Conference at UT Austin, TX, April 2017.