German Abroad 2.
- Date
- Location
- University of Texas at Austin
- Hosts
- Hans C. Boas
Perspectives from Variationist Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, and Multilingualism
From November 2-3, 2016, the second German Abroad Conference took place at the Department for Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Invited speakers
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
Organization
- Hans C. Boas
- Barbara Bullock
- Lars Hinrichs
- Jacqueline Toribio
- Marc Pierce
Sponsored by
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