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Lexical and syntactic contact of Chinese and Japanese in early 20th century: analyzing Nisshigōbengo

The Nisshigōbengo, recorded by Natakani Shikaji, is an important material for analyzing the language contact between Chinese and Japanese in early 20th century. In our article, lexical contact is studied by the revised word list of Swadesh by Chen Baoya, and syntactic contact is studied by comparing Nisshigōbengo with Chinese and Japanese. A two-way contact in lexicon is observed. In terms of syntax, there is some phenomena with a substrate of Japanese syntax, while existing some new phenomena different from both Chinese and Japanese. Some Chinese words are borrowed in forming syntax.