TY - JOUR
KW - Pennsylvania German
KW - Language use
KW - Language maintenance
KW - Mennonites (Old Order)
KW - Waterloo County
AU - Kate Burridge
AB - 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
BT - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung - STUF
C7 - English(30)
CY - Germany
DB - Journal Article (aja)
DP - CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
ID - 3087
IS - 1
LA - English
M1 - Journal Article
M3 - Print(0)
PP - Germany
PY - 2007
SN - 0942-2919
SP - 32
EP - 41
EP - 
T1 - A Separate and Peculiar People-Fieldwork and the Pennsylvania Germans
T2 - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung - STUF
VL - 60
ER -