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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
German Sängerfest in Waterloo County during the late nineteenth century
Type: ThesisKeywords: MusicWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1981Export options:German-Canadian folk linguistic perceptions of traditional dialects
Type: ThesisAbstract: Recent work in sociolinguistics suggest that how linguists view language matters very little when it comes to language evaluations and language change. Instead, Preston 1 argues that linguists should ...Year of publication: 2007Export options:German-Canadian Review: quarterly of the Canadian-German Society, Inc.
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract: A continuation of the quarterly "German- Review", published by the Canadian Society for German Relief in Manitoba. The format, place of publication and publisher all changed in 1956 when the Canadian ...Year of publication: 1956Historical Period: 1948-1956Export options:Heritage languages the case of German in Kitchener-Waterloo
Type: ThesisYear of publication: 2002Export options:Irish Palatine communities in nineteenth-century Ontario
Type: ThesisAbstract: The Irish Palatines are one of Ontario's forgotten ethnic groups. Forced to flee the German Palatinate in 1709, many settled in England first with the expectation of being sent to America. A small ...Year of publication: 1990Export options:Language Maintenance and Change among the Swiss Mennonites of the Waterloo Region, Ontario
Type: ThesisAbstract: The purpose of the research presented in this dissertation is to gain insight into processes of language maintenance and shift and language change by studying the current situation of the ...Keywords: Morphology (linguistics)WaterlooGrammatical genderPennsylvania GermanDialectsGerman (Low)language shiftYear of publication: 2011Historical Period: 1800-2011Export options:Lexical and morphological interference phenomena in the German speech of German immigrants in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Ontario, Canada
Type: ThesisAbstract: This thesis attempts to scrutinize the lexical and morphological interference phenomena in the German speech of German immigrants in the Kitchener-Waterloo area in Ontario. Interview data revealed ...Keywords: LinguisticsKitchenerWaterlooGermansYear of publication: 1990Export options:Mennonitisches Niederdeutsch in Südontario: eine Studie zur Sprache und Geschichte einer Religionsgemeinschaft
Type: ThesisYear of publication: 1998Export options:Neighbourhood ethnic transition and summary segregation indices: A methodological assessment
Type: ThesisAbstract: This study examined mechanisms through which summary indices of residential segregation respond to specific patterns of neighbourhood ethnic composition changes. The analytic procedures included ...Year of publication: 1997Export options:Neologismen der 90er Jahre--Kenntnis und Einstellungen unter Deutschsprecher/innen aus Kitchener-Waterloo
Type: ThesisAbstract: In 2004, the Institut für Deutsche Sprache published the neologism dictionary "Neuer Wortschatz: Neologismen der 90er Jahre im Deutschen", which contains new words that entered the German language ...Year of publication: 2006Export options: