Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited

Abstract

The paper is an overview of the structural features of the phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, an under researched contact language. The data examined are from a corpus which includes records not analyzed in previous work on this 19th century variety of pidginized Japanese.

Keywords

• Yokohama Pidgin Japanese
• phonology
• morphology
• syntax
• vocabulary