@article{800,
  keywords = {Pennsylvania German, Language use, Language maintenance, Mennonites (Old Order), Waterloo County},
  author = {Kate Burridge},
  title = {A Separate and Peculiar People-Fieldwork and the Pennsylvania Germans},
  abstract = {The following is an account of fieldwork experience in the Old Order Mennonite community of Waterloo County, Ontario. The language spoken here is Pennsylvania German & this paper focuses on methodological & ethical challenges that arise for any linguist wanting to study this language in its natural setting. This is a close-knit, ultra-conservative & deeply religious speech community, specifically one that wants to remain apart from the outside world. Even the issue of language survival does not give the linguist a natural role to play. Formal maintenance efforts are not in demand. Pennsylvania German is a language that has been holding its own for nearly 400 years & it is the humble, separate & 'peculiar' existence of these speakers that holds the key to the continued existence of this language. References. Adapted from the source document},
  year = {2007},
  journal = {Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung - STUF},
  volume = {60},
  number = {Journal Article},
  pages = {32-41, },
  address = {Germany},
  isbn = {0942-2919},
  language = {English},
}