Open AccessYokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited
Author(s) -
Andrei A. Avram
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta linguistica asiatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2232-3317
DOI - 10.4312/ala.4.2.67-84
Subject(s) - pidgin , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , syntax , phonology , vocabulary , historical linguistics , history , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , creole language
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.