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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | German Language (Linguistics),General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages |
| Keywords | Deutsche Sprachinseln, Sprachdokumentation, Konstruktionsgrammatik, Frame-Semantik, language contact and language death |
| Honours and awards | 2011: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America 2010: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, AvH Foundation, 2009: Humanities Research Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin. 2007: Hugo-Moser Förderpreis für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Deutsche Sprache 2005: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C. One-year long fellowship with release from teaching duties 2000: Postdoctoral Fellowship, DAAD, for research at ICSI Berkeley |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Austin |
| Institution | University of Texas at Austin |
| Institute | Department of Germanic Studies |
| Homepage | http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka | Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes | Philosophische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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| 2021 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Boas is an internationally recognized linguist in the field of German Studies. He has contributed outstanding research in a wide array of fields, including semantics, grammar theory, computational lexicography and the documentation of endangered languages and dialect varieties. By applying his innovative method during his stay in Germany, Professor Boas will make an invaluable contribution to the success of research in language contact and multilingualism. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2012 | Hans Christian Boas, Ivan A. Sag: Sign-based Construction Grammar. CSLI Publications, 2012 |
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| 2010 | Hans Christian Boas: Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. John Benjamins, 2010 |
| 2009 | Hans Christian Boas: Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Mouton de Gruyter, 2009 |
| 2009 | Hans Christian Boas: The life and death of Texas German. Duke University Press, 2009 |