Hans C. Boas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hans C. Boas is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
Book series
Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?
Edited by Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 16:2 (2024) v, 177 pp.
Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. vii, 437 pp.
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp.
Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas
The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp.
Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Hans C. Boas
This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 4] 2005. viii, 246 pp.
2025 Chapter 8. The for … zu construction in Texas German Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 157–184 | Chapter
While Standard German uses um … zu (‘in order to’) in sentences that contain a clause with an infinitive, Texas German (TxG), a critically endangered diaspora dialect of German, employs the for … zu (‘in order to’) construction to mark infinitival clauses. This can be seen in sentences like “Nie… read more
2025 What makes Construction Grammar relevant for contact linguistics — and vice versa? Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Chapter
2025 Diasystematic Construction Grammar at work: The need for a non-modular, data-driven approach to multilingual grammar Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 22–78 | Chapter
This paper presents the various arguments in favor of a non-modular, data-driven approach to language contact phenomena. Based on a review of modular approaches to studying language contact, the paper shows how Diasystematic Construction Grammar (a usage-based approach) allows for a different… read more
2024 Constructionist views on Construction Grammar Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?, Boas, Hans C., Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Introduction
2021 Widening the scope: Recent trends in constructional contact linguistics Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
2018 A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 253–276 | Chapter
The last decade has seen the expansion of systematic study of spoken language within Construction Grammar (Fried & Östman 2005, Östman 2006, Günthner 2006, Imo 2007). While most studies have only noted that a specific syntactic pattern may have different manifestations in spoken language and in… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Constructing a constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages, Lyngfelt, Benjamin, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent (eds.), pp. 183–228 | Chapter
This chapter discusses a number of important issues underlying and motivating the development of a constructicon for German. More specifically, it presents an overview of some typologically interesting facets of German syntax such as word order, topological fields, case, and passives. Taking a… read more
2018 Construction Grammar and language contact: An introduction Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 5–36 | Chapter
2015 The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article
While earlier studies of New Braunfels German (NBG), a dialect of Texas German (TxG), e.g., Eikel (1954, 1966b) and Gilbert (1972), report the existence of front rounded vowels to various degrees, they are almost completely absent from present-day NBG (Boas 2009). This paper describes the history… read more
2014 Chapter 1. Applying constructional concepts to Romance languages Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), pp. 1–35 | Article
2013 Review of Hoffmann (2011): Preposition Placement in English. A Usage-Based Approach English World-Wide 34:1, pp. 114–118 | Review
2011 Lexical developments in Texas German Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 129–150 | Article
This paper offers new insights into on-going research on lexical borrowing in language contact situations by presenting a typology of lexical borrowings in Texas German (TxG), a critically endangered dialect that will go extinct within the next 30 years. We show that the lexicon of TxG has not… read more
2010 Comparing constructions across languages Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2010 The syntax–lexicon continuum in Construction Grammar: A case study of English communication verbs Framing: From grammar to application, Sambre, Paul and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth (eds.), pp. 54–82 | Article
This paper offers an alternative analysis of Goldberg’s (1995) account of communication verbs appearing in the ditransitive construction. Based on a more finely-grained frame-semantic analysis of constructional phenomena, it is shown that generalizations over specific syntactic frames are possible… read more
2009 Case loss in Texas German: The influence of semantic and pragmatic factors The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 347–373 | Article
Based on a comparison of data from Gilbert (1972) and data collected by the Texas German Dialect Project between 2001–2006 I demonstrate that dative case marking in Texas German has significantly declined over the past 40 years. Applying Trudgill’s (2004) model of new-dialect formation to the data… read more
2008 Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 113–144 | Article
Research in Construction Grammar assumes no strict separation between syntax and the lexicon. However, recent work by Goldberg (1995, 2006) shows that there is indeed a separation between lexical entries and grammatical constructions, including constraints regulating the fusion of grammatical… read more
2008 2. Resolving form-meaning discrepancies in Construction Grammar Constructional Reorganization, Leino, Jaakko (ed.), pp. 11–36 | Article
2005 Review of Baltin & Collins (2001): The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory Studies in Language 29:1, pp. 189–199 | Review
2005 Introduction Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots, Fried, Mirjam and Hans C. Boas (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Miscellaneous
In this paper, we discuss the prevalent diversity of constructionist approaches in relation to the idea of Construction Grammar as a coherent field of linguistic study. We do so, based on the views of about 190 constructionist researchers, as expressed in a questionnaire in 2021. While the… read more