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28 April 2020: Our book chapter “The contact varieties of Japan and the North-West Pacific” is coming soon!

Matsumoto, Kazuko and David Britain (2020) The contact varieties of Japan and the North-West Pacific. In Umberto Ansaldo and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics). London: Routledge. Pp. 106-131.
28 February 2020: My article “A restudy of postcolonial Palau after two decades: Changing views of multilingualism in the Pacific” is coming soon!

Matsumoto, Kazuko (2020) A restudy of postcolonial Palau after two decades: Changing views of multilingualism in the Pacific. In Berg, Marinus van den (ed.) Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region, Special issue (the 30th anniversary of publication) of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30(1): 34–59.
28 January 2020: My article “Nativisation in adolescent Palauan English: A discourse-pragmatic perspective” is coming soon!

Matsumoto, Kazuko (2020) Nativisation in adolescent Palauan English: A discourse-pragmatic perspective. In Y. Asahi (ed.) Proceedings of Methods XVI: Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2017 (Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics 59). Berlin: Peter Lang. Pp. 75-82
28 February 2019: My book chapter “Language variation and change” is coming!

Matsumoto, Kazuko (2019) Language variation and change. In Patrick Heinrich and Yumiko Ohara (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics). London: Routledge.
28 January 2019: Our book chapter “Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: Food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific” is coming!

Matsumoto, Kazuko and David Britain (2019) Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: Food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific. In Giuseppe Balirano and Siria Guzzo (eds.) Food Across Cultures: Linguistic Insights in Transcultural Tastes. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
28 February 2018: Our edited book, Micronesian Englishes, is coming!

David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Buerki, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.) (forthcoming) Micronesian Englishes (Dialects of English). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
28 January 2018: At last, this website has been re-opened after a closure of several years due to a series of family matters (child birth, family & child care and the Great East Japan Earthquake which devastated my hometown). The Japanese site will also be reopened soon….