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Hello. I am GOTOO Hitosi, professor emeritus of linguistics at Tohoku University. I have rather broad interests in various fields of linguistics, but my specialties lie in the fields of:

• Romance Linguistics, especially the historical syntax and morphology of Medieval Occitan
• Corpus Linguistics applied to English and Japanese Lexicology
• Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies

For various reasons my name is sometimes spelled as "Hitoshi Goto". I don't always raise an objection to this: I myself sometimes have to write this way. I prefer, however, my name to be written "GOTOO Hitosi", and please note that Japanese distinguishes long and short vowels and the first "o" in my family name is short and the second is long.

What is Esperanto?

Esperanto is a planned international language. It facilitates communication among people with different cultural backgrounds. It is international, neutral and easy to use.

For more information on Esperanto, please refer to Universal Esperanto Association.

My articles in English on Esperanto:

• Review: Detlev Blanke and Ulrich Lins (eds.). La arto labori kune: Festlibro por Humphrey Tonkin. in: Language Problems and Language Planning,36(1), (2012), pp.95-97.
• 22: Esperanto: Internationalism, dialogue, and an evolving community" in: John C. Maher (ed.) Language Communities in Japan, Oxford Univ. Pr., 2022, ISBN 9780198856610, pp. 217-223. (with Kimura Goro Christoph)

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