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

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