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Hans Boas is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also serves as the Director of the Texas German Dialect Project. His main research revolves around the interplay of syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, particularly from a contrastive perspective between English and German. He has extensively worked with theoretical frameworks such as Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, leaning heavily on corpus-based research methods. Over the last 15 years, Hans has focused on Argument Structure Constructions, including Resultative and Passive Constructions, as well as Locative Alternation. He collaborates with the FrameNet team at Berkeley, investigating methodologies to apply constructional annotation in linguistics. His work frequently involves documenting endangered dialects and languages, exemplified by his contributions to the Texas German Dialect Archive. In 2011, he received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for his significant contributions to linguistics and has been awarded fellowships for his research on multilingualism and language policy. Hans is actively involved in developing comparative methodologies for analyzing German contact varieties and has published widely in various academic journals and edited volumes.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Director of the Texas German Dialect Project.
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