German Abroad 2.

Datum
Ort
University of Texas at Austin
Hosts
Hans C. Boas

Perspectives from Variationist Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, and Multilingualism

Von 2. bis 3. November 2016 fand die zweite German Abroad-Konferenz am Department for Germanic Studies der University of Texas at Austin statt.

Keynotes

Alexandra Lenz: Put and take verbs in German

Ana Deumert: Towards a sociolinguistics of the colonial/post-colonial contact zone: Comparative reflections on Kiche Duits and Unserdeutsch

Bill Keel: Comparing intergenerational assimilation to the dominant contact language (American English) in several German varietal enclaves from the Ozarks Mountains of Missouri to the High Plains of Kansas

 

Organisationsteam

  • Hans C. Boas
  • Barbara Bullock
  • Lars Hinrichs
  • Jacqueline Toribio
  • Marc Pierce

 

Department of Germanic Studies, Texas German Dialect Project, Linguistics Research Center, Texas Language Center, Center for European Studies, and the Dickson/Allen/Anderson endowed professorship