Pennsylvania German women began quilting in the mid-nineteenth century in order to make something useful from scraps of clothing fabric.
If reluctant to engage in the activity of the civil polity, the
Pennsylvania Germans displayed no lack of energy for engagement in ecclesiastical governance.
Discourse markers in
Pennsylvania German and their discourse functions Discourse marker N Discourse function well 106 indicates that the subsequent utterance may not be what is expected by the hearer so 193 links two utterances or assumptions causally y'know 215 emphasis/focus; presents information as shared, creating common ground but 154 emphasis/focus: presents information as shared, creating common ground weescht 224 contrastive conjunction aber 201 contrastive conjunction ja 1 contrast and emphasis mal 15 indicates the limited duration of the action referred to in the utterance
The worksheet contained questions testing the student's knowledge of the historical background of
Pennsylvania German Fraktur, the art elements and principles involved, and the process each individual followed, noting problems, solutions and successes.
Author Doris Stolberg presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change as exhibited in
Pennsylvania German with its long-standing contact with English.
Weaver's most important contribution may be his historical tracing of the substitution of "Amish" for "
Pennsylvania German" in popular presentations of such food.
At the request of the Publications Committee of the
Pennsylvania German Society, Simon J.
(2.) The only relevant piece of concrete research that I know of is Burridge (1998: 20), who attributes an apparent case of degrammaticalization in
Pennsylvania German to the speakers' world view:
She was a charter and life member of the Ontario Genealogical Society, (in such branches as Brant, Hamilton, Niagara, Elgin, and Toronto), a member of the Ontario Historical Society,
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of ON, the Doane Family Association the Huguenot Society of NY, the National Genealogical Society, USA, the Society of Genealogists, London, England, ant of course the United Empire Loyalists' Association, (Hamilton and Grand River).
It has been claimed that the word is altered from a
Pennsylvania German form of German schnelle Geister ("quick spirits") and that the creature can be traced to German folk beliefs.
Luther's Small Catechism, and the Heidelberg Catechism among Reformed adherents, maintained their symbolic authority within most Greater
Pennsylvania German communities.
Having visited Lancaster County several times over the past three decades, I can testify to both the abundance and excellent taste of their
Pennsylvania German cuisine.