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I am Professor of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan. I have been interested in and intensively studying grammatical changes in minority Slavic languages, focusing particularly on Kashubian, which is spoken mainly in Pomeranian Voivodeship in the northern part of Poland. In addition, I am a sociolinguist and specialize in language policy, language planning, and linguistic landscape from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Until now, I have conducted numerous field studies on Slavic minority languages such as Kashubian and Podlachian (Poland), Burgenland Croatian (Austria), Banat Bulgarian (Serbia and Romania), Bunjevac (Serbia), West Polessian (Belarus and Ukraine), Gorani (Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) and other areas. I have been a member of the Commission on Slavic microlanguages of the ICS since 2016. 

Publications (selected):

Edited Books

• (with Tomasz Kamusella) Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires. London: Routledge, 2023.

• (with Shiori Kiyosawa) Grammar in Society, Society in Grammar: Studies on Normative Grammar of Slavic Languages. Moscow: JaSK, 2020

• (with Andrii Danylenko) Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2019.

• (with Dieter Stern and Bojan Belić) Linguistic Regionalism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: Minority, Regional and Liteary Microlanguages. Bern: Peter Lang, 2018.

• (with Aleksandr D. Duličenko) Slavic Microphilology. Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, 2018.

• Serbica Iaponica: Doprinos japanskih slavista srpskoj filologiji. Novi Sad/Sapporo: Matica srpska, SRC, 2016.

• (with Tomasz Kamusella and Catherine Gibson) The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.

Articles

• “The Early Nikita Il’ič Tolstoj as a Macedonist,” In: Svetlana M. Tolstaya (ed.). Slovo i čelovek akademika Nikity Il'iča Tolstogo. K 100-letiju so dnja roždenija. pp. 258–274, 2023.

• “On a particular usage of the locative and accusative cases in Bugenland Croatian,” Južnoslovenski filolog, LXXVIII 2, pp. 383–408, 2022.

• “Afanasij M. Seliščev’s unpublished manuscript on South Slavic languages,” Slavistika 26 (1), pp. 156–172, 2022.

• “The Evolution of Samuil B. Bernštejn’s Views on Two “Questions of Slavistics”,” Balkanistica 35, pp.111–174, 2022.

• (with Johan van der Auwera and Olga Krasnoukhova) “Connective negation and negative concord in Balto-Slavic,” In: Arkadiev, P., Pakerys, J., Šeškauskienė, I. and Žeimantienė, V. (eds). Studies in Baltic and Other Languages. A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the occasion of his 65th birthday. pp. 45–66, 2021.

• “Language Loss and Preservation: The Case of Banat Bulgarian in Serbia,” Balkanistica 30, pp. 289–318, 2020.

• “The Gorani People in Search of Identity: The Current Sociolinguistic Situation among the Gorani Community of the Former Yugoslavia,” In: Aleksandr D. Duličenko, Motoki Nomachi, eds., Slavic Microphilology. Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, pp. 375–413, 2018.

• “Contact-induced Grammatical (Non)changes? Observations of the Morpho-Syntactic Structures in the Kashubian Dialect in Canada,” Južnoslovenski filolog, LXXIV 1-2, pp. 13–29, 2018.

• (with Bojan Belić) “Vojvodina’s Minority Languages in Light of a Language Emancipation Theory,” Balkanistic Forum 3: 1, 19–33, 2018.

• (with Bojan Belić) “21st Century Standard Language Ideology in Serbia and Poland,” Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies 10, pp. 177–192, 2018.

• “Another Look at the Rise and Fall of the West Polessian Literary Microlanguage (with a Glance toward Less Discussed Ukrainian Factors),” In: Ljudmila Popović, ed., Ukrainian Studies and Slavic World. 264–283, 2017.

• (with Biljana Sikmić) “Linguistic Landscape in the Memorial Space of Multilingual Society: A Case of Banat Bulgarians in Serbia,” Južnoslovenski filolog, LXXII 1-2, pp. 453–474, 2016. (in Serbian)

• “The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Banat Bulgarian Literary Language: Sociolinguistic History from the Perspective of Trans-Border Interactions,” In: Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, and Catherine Gibson, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 394–428, 2016.

• “On the Second Be Periphrasis (BE-2) in Kashubian: Its Grammatical Status and Historical Development,” Slavia: časopis pro slovanskou filologii, vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 268–283, 2015.

• “Language Contact and Structural Changes in Serbian and Other Slavic languages in the Banat Region,” In: Ljudmila Popović, Dojčil Vojvodić and Motoki Nomachi, eds., In the Space of Slavic Linguistics. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology at University of Belgrade, pp. 549–565, 2015.