TGDP presentation at the 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Language Attitudes in Castroville, Texas" (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison: "Usage and replacement of the preposition 'for' in Texas German" (Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP presentation at the 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison: "The Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas, Guido Halder, Marc Pierce, Karen Roesch, and Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP presentation at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Round Table, University of California, Berkeley: "The Texas German Dialect Archive: A multi-media resource for Germanic Linguistics." (Hans C. Boas, Guido Halder, Marc Pierce, Karen Roesch, and Hunter Weilbacher).
TGDP presentation at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Round Table, University of California, Berkeley: "The last Alsatian Cowboys?" (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Round Table, University of California, Berkeley: "Das weiss ich anyhow nicht: the syntax of the bilingual discourse markers anyway and anyhow in Texas German." (Hunter Weilbacher)
The TGDP is featured in DER SPIEGEL, Germany's leading news magazine. Click here for the article (in German).
TGDP presentation at the 32nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Williamsburg, VA: "Texas Alsatians get tough: Language attitudes in Castroville, Texas." (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the 32nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Williamsburg, VA: "The Texas German Dialect Archive." (Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce)
TGDP presentation at the University of North Texas (Denton): "Documenting the Language of Cowboys in Lederhosen: The Texas German Dialect Project." (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation, Germanic Studies Speakers Series, Department of Germanic Studies, UT Austin: "Why is Texas German dying?" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI): "Discourse Markers in German-American Dialects." (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the Max-Kade Institute, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI): "German-American Heritage Preservation in the 21st Century." (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation, Germanic Studies speaker series, University of Texas at Austin: "Texas Germans Get Tough: Case Maintenance in Texas Alsatian." (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley: "A corpus-based investigation of preterite loss in Texas German: Evidence for Language Loss?" (Hans C. Boas and Sarah Schuchard).
TGDP is featured in "Unterricht Englisch" (Teaching English), a prominent magazine for English school teachers in Germany. Click here (article in German).
First TGDP newsletter is published. Click here for an electronic version.
TGDP presentation in honor of German-American Day 2007, hosted by the Texas German Society, Texas Blackland Chapter, Temple, TX: "The Texas German Dialect Project." (Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP presentation at the Roeckne Historical Association meeting, Roeckne, TX: "The Texas German Dialect Project." (Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP presentation at the meeting of the Fredericksburg Rotary Club, Fredericksburg,TX: "The future of the Texas German Dialect." (Hans C. Boas)
Article in Directions/The Magazine of the Texas Hill Country reports on the TGDP. Click here for the article.
TGDP presentation at monthly meeting of the German Texan Society Golden Crescent Chapter, Waco, TX: "What have we learned about Texas German?" (Hans C. Boas)
Thanks to gap funding made available by Steve Leslie, Provost of UT Austin, the TGDP will be able to continue its operations until August 2008. During this time, we will focus our efforts on increasing the number of interviews recorded each month. Additionally, we will intensify our fundraising campaign to build the Texas German Dialect Endowment at UT Austin.
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "The Texas German Dialect Archive" (Hans C. Boas and Guido Halder)
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "Which factors determine lexical attrition in Texas German?" (Jansen Harris and Julia Zerger)
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "A corpus-based study of declining preterite usage in Texas German" (Sarah Schuchard)
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "Language Policies, Attitudes and the Case of Texas German" (Kathleen Shaw)
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "The feminine tendency of English loanwords in Texas German" (Vincent Van der Heijden)
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "The Last Alsatian Cowboy: Case Maintenance in Texas Alsatian" (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (Denver, Colorado): "Usage and replacement of the preposition 'for' in Texas German" (Hunter Weilbacher)
Article in Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reports on the TGDP. Click here for the article.
TGDP presentation at the annual convention of the German-Texan Heritage Society, San Antonio, TX: "What will be left of the German heritage in Texas after the Texas German dialect has died out?" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP featured in Austinist. Click here.
TGDP presentation at the monthly meeting of the Burton Lion's Club, Burton: "Why are there so many English words in Texas German?" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the workshop of the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, UT Austin: "The Texas German Dialect Project: What have we learned over the past six years?" (Hans C. Boas)
Article on the Texas German Dialect Project is distributed by the Associated Press. It is featured in more than 70 newspapers in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and France. Click here for article. Click here for the interactive video (search for Texas German).
Article in Austin-American Statesman reports on the TGDP as a part of an overview of research projects at UT Austin. Click here for the article. A video about the TGDP explains the goals of the project. Click here for the video.
TGDP presentation at the monthly speaker series at the headquarters of the GTHS (Texas German Heritage Society), Austin: "Language Shift and the Future of the Texas German Dialect" (Hans C. Boas)
Hans Boas receives the Hugo-Moser Prize for Germanic Linguistics for his work on Texas German. The prize is awarded by the Institut für Deutsche Sprache ("Institute for the German Language"), a federally-funded research institute concerned with the documentation and analysis of contemporary German.
TGDP publication: "From the Field to the Web: Implementing Best-practice Recommendations in Documentary Linguistics" (Hans C. Boas) appears in the journal Language Resources and Evaluation. Click here for the article.
Fieldwork begins in Castroville.
Story about Texas German airs on KUT Radio. Click here for the sound file.
TGDP interviews its 200th speaker.
Story about Texas German appears in the New Braunfels Herald Zeitung. Click here for story.
Article in Houston Chronicle reports on TGDP interviews in Fredericksburg. Click here to link to the story on the Chronicle's website. Click here for article text.
Hans Boas is interviewed about Texas German for the show "As it happens" (produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company), which airs on many public radio stations across the U.S. Click here to listen to the interview.
Fieldwork begins in Waldeck, Texas.
News release about the TGDP on the UT Austin home page, please click here.
TGDP presentation at the Meeting of the College of Liberal Arts Leadership Council, University of Texas at Austin: "The Texas German Dialect Project." (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the conference on "Diaspora Experiences: German-speaking Immigrants and their Descendants" at the University of Waterloo, Canada: "Documenting Diaspora Experiences: The Texas German Dialect Archive" (Hans C. Boas and Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP presentation at the weekly meeting of the Lions Club of Schulenburg, TX: "What happens when you mix lederhosen and pick-up trucks?" (Hans C. Boas)
Article in San Antonio Express-News reports on the fading German language in the Hill Country. For article, click here.
TGDP presentation at the Jank family reunion, Meyersville, TX: "The Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the monthly meeting of the La Grange chapter of the Texas German Society, La Grange, TX: "Why is Texas German different?" (Hans C. Boas)
Jim Rybarski graduates with honors in Linguistics from UT. Title of his thesis: "Some developments in the Texas German case system." In August 2006, Jim will join the Peace Corps and will go to Africa for two years.
TGDP presentation at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: "The unexpected survival of German discourse markers in Texas German" (Hans C. Boas and Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP presentation at the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives, La Grange, TX: "The Future of the Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas). Click here for announcement in the Fayette County Record.
Article in Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post reports on TGDP fieldwork in Doss, on January 12, 2006. Please click here.
Follow-up article on the TGDP appears in the San Antonio Express-News; please click here.
TGDP interviews its 175th speaker.
TGDP - presentation at the 3rd DELAMAN workshop on "Managing access and intellectual property rights." University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX: "The Texas German Dialect Archive: Access rights and permission" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP - presentation at the 9th Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX:"Wir Haben die Car in die Garage Gemoved, y'know? -or- The Syntax of Bilingual Discourse Markers in Texas German" (Hans C. Boas and Hunter Weilbacher)
TGDP - presentation at the bi-monthly meeting of the German-American Chamber of Commerce, Houston, TX: "Funding for the Texas German Dialect Archive" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP - presentation at the monthly meeting of the New Braunfels Conservation Society, New Braunfels, TX: "New Braunfels German 50 years later" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP-presentation at the quarterly meeting of the Harris County Chapter of the Texas German Society, Houston, TX: "Texas German in Harris County" (Hans C. Boas)
Ulrike Bathe (Germanic Studies, UT Austin) finishes her M.A. thesis entitled "Plural Formation in Texas German."
TGDP-presentation at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache ('Institute for the German Language'), Mannheim, Germany: "Das Texas-Deutsche Dialekt Projekt" ('The Texas German Dialect Project') (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP receives instructional technology grant from the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
TGDP interviews its 150th speaker.
Leslie Whitworth (Foreign Language Education, UT Austin) finishes her M.A. thesis entitled "Remnants of the German Language in Mason County, Texas."
Jana Thompson (Germanic Studies, UT Austin) finishes her M.A. thesis entitled "Code-switching in Texas German."
Database redesign begins to include more detailed information on language use among Texas Germans.
Hunter Weilbacher receives a Research Internship (Academic Year 2005-2006) from the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin to work with the TGDP.
Fieldwork begins in Comfort.
Fieldwork begins in Harris County.
TGDP-presentation at the Sophienburg Archive (New Braunfels, TX): "The Future of the Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas)
Two articles on the Texas German Dialect Project appear in the San Antonio Express-News. Please click here and here.
TGDP-presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society/Linguistic Society of America (Oakland, CA): "What happened to Texas German?" (Hans C. Boas) For a report, please see: http://www.slate.com/id/2112150/
TGDP-endowment receives its first $1000 donation.
Hans C. Boas receives fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov) to complete his book on Texas German.
TGDP-presentation at the First Annual Rice-UT Austin Linguistics Workshop on Language in Use (Rice University): "Implementing Best-Practice Recommendations in Documentary Linguistics: The Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP-presentation at the International Videoconference on the Unique Impact of Central European Immigration in New World Settlements (Concordia University (Austin, TX)): "Texas German as a Lingua Franca" (Hans C. Boas)
Fund-raising effort begins for the Texas German endowment. The goal is to raise half a million dollars over five years to guarantee permanent financial support for the documentation, archiving, and analysis of Texas German language and culture (similar endowments have already been put in place by the Texas-Czechs and Texas-Swedes). Donations are tax-deductable.
TGDP-presentation at the quarterly meeting of the Golden Crescent Chapter of the Texas German Society (Victoria, TX): "The Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas), please see Article in Victoria Advocate.
Another article in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung.
Fieldwork begins in Victoria.
TGDP interviews its 100th speaker.
TGDP receives media grant from Humanities Texas (formerly Texas Council for the Humanities).
Fieldwork begins in Boerne.
TGDP receives instructional technology grant from the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fieldwork begins in Bulverde.
TGDP-Presentation at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable in Berkeley (California): "Texas German - or - the Dialect that Never Happened" (Hans C. Boas)
Fieldwork begins in Lee County.
Preliminary fieldwork begins in Crawford. For a newspaperarticle in the Clifton Record, see
UT Researchers Record Dying Dialect from Central Texas, Clifton Record, February 18, 2004 for details.
TGDP-presentation at the quarterly meeting of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society in Serbin: "What happens when your language dies?" (Hans C. Boas)
TGDP receives ~FASTTEX development grant from the Center for Instructional Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin for hosting video recordings of presentations on Texas German.
TGDP-presentation at the German Department of the University of Goettingen (Germany): "Das Texas Deutsche Spracharchiv"(The Texas German Dialect Archive) (Hans C. Boas).
TGDP-presentation at the Heart of Texas chapter of the Texas German Society in Waco: "The Texas German Dialect Project"(Hans C. Boas)
TGDP-presentation at the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the 2003 German-Texan Heritage Society, New Braunfels: "What is happening with Texas German?" (Hans C. Boas).
TGDP-presentation at the 7th International Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, Broome, Australia: "Social Factors Contributing to the Death of Texas German" (Hans C. Boas). For a review of the conference, see Ogmios newsletter November 2003.
TGDP receives media grant from the Texas Council for the Humanities.
TGDP receives instructional technology grant from the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
Preliminary fieldwork begins in Brenham.
TGDP-presentation at the monthly meeting of the Washington County Genealogical Society, Brenham: "Why is Texas German so unique?" (Hans C. Boas).
New TGDP user interface and web site design go online.
"Story on Texas German Dialect Project appears in Daily Texan"
TGDP-presentation at the monthly meeting of the German-AmericanSociety of New Braunfels: ¿What happens when dialects die? The future of Texas German¿ (Hans C. Boas).
TGDP-co-presentation at Digital Stream Conference (EmergingTechnologies in Teaching Languages and Culture), California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey, California: "Technology-BasedLanguage and Culture Projects at The University of Texas at Austin¿" Hans C. Boas, with Coco Kishi and Suzanne Rhodes, Center forInstructional Technologies, UT Austin).
TGDP-poster presentation at the "Six Other Flags over Texas" symposium, University of Texas at Austin: "The Texas German Dialect Archive" (Hans C. Boas, John Stewart).
TGDP-presentation at the 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: "When phonology goeshaywire in dying languages: The role of external and internal factors inrecent developments in Texas German" (Hans C. Boas, Karen Ewing,Cheryl Heckmann, and Jana Thompson).
TGDP-presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California at Berkeley: "Rapid CaseLoss as an Indicator of Dialect Death in Texas German" (Hans C. Boas).
TGDP receives ~FASTTEX development grant from the Centerfor Instructional Technologies at the University of Texas at Austinfor re-design of pilot web-site and database user interface.
TGDP-presentation at the Linguistics Circle, University of Texasat Austin: "Building a Multi-Media Archive of Texas German" (HansC. Boas).
TGDP pilot web site and user interface go online athttp://www.tgdp.org
TGDP-presentation at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Comal County Genealogy Society, New Braunfels:"The current state of Texas German"(Hans C. Boas).
TGDP receives instructional technology grant from the Liberal ArtsInstructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
TGDP-presentation at the International Computer Science Institute,Berkeley, California: "How technology helps with preserving dying dialects" (Hans C. Boas).
First version of TGDP pilot web site is online. Testing of different userinterfaces begins.
TGDP-presentation at the International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation(LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain: "The Texas German DialectArchive as a Tool for analyzing Sound Change" (Hans C. Boas).
TGDP-presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of the BerkeleyLinguistics Society, University of California at Berkeley: "TracingDialect Death: The Texas German Dialect Project" (Hans C. Boas).
Systematic fieldwork begins in areas surrounding New Braunfels,Fredericksburg, and Schulenburg.
TGDP receives Special Research Grant from the Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin to conduct linguistic fieldwork in the areas surrounding New Braunfels, Fredericksburg,and Schulenburg.
TGDP receives ~FASTTEX development grant from the Center for Instructional Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin for design and implementation of pilot web-site.
Preliminary fieldwork begins in New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin provides startup funds for Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP).