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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Creating Grammar: Examples from Pennsylvania German, Ontario
Type: Book ChapterYear of publication: 1992Export options:Evidence of Grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German
Type: Book ChapterYear of publication: 1995Export options:Floradale Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4586): German Company Tract lot 101, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of about 60 stones, with a short history of Floradale Mennonite Church and a name index.Year of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1945-1991Export options:From Modal Auxiliary to Lexical Verb: The Curious Case of Pennsylvania German Wotte
Type: Book ChapterKeywords: German (New High)Pennsylvania GermanWaterlooMorphology (linguistics)SemanticsModality (linguistics)Mennonites (Old Order)Year of publication: 1998Export options:German or Canadian?
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An essay about German identity in southwestern Ontario, based on examples from German-language newspapers in Ontario. The author attributes the lack of active political ambition by early German ...Keywords: NewspapersIndustriesPoetryGerman languageEthnic groupsEthnic identityCustoms and traditionsOntarioWorld War IAcculturationYear of publication: 1952Historical Period: c1800-c1950Export options:History of the pioneer German language press of Ontario, 1835-1918
Type: BookKeywords: NewspapersGerman19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1968Export options:John A. Rittinger
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A profile of the Berlin newspaper editor who wrote a regular series of letters in the Pennsylvania German dialect under the pseudonym of Joe Klotzkopp.Year of publication: 1957Historical Period: 1855-1915Export options:North Woolwich Conservative Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4589): German Company Tract lot 90, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of more than 500 stones, with an index and an introduction that includes a short history of the church and cemetery. It notes that many of the burials in the cemetery are not Mennonite.Year of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1880-1988Export options:On the Trail of the Conestoga Modal: Recent Movements of Modal Auxiliaries in Pennsylvania German
Type: Book ChapterYear of publication: 1997Export options:Pennsylvania German: where culture and language meet: the question of language survival: changes within its grammar as enactments of Anabaptist world view
Type: BookYear of publication: 1998Export options: