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Kaoru Ohta Senior Lecturer M231 Gowen Hall Box 353521 Seattle, WA 98195-3521 (206) 543-6315; Fax (206) 685-4268 kaoru@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/kaoru/
Research & Teaching Fields Japanese linguistics, syntax and morphology Selected Publications "Kakari-musubi and Focus Structure," in N. Akatsuka , S. Strauss, and B. Comrie (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10 . CSLI Publications, 2002. pp. 293-305. "Tense in the Subject Raising Construction." in Ho-min Sohn and John Haig (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics . CSLI Publications, 1997. pp. 353-368. "The Verbal Stem Form of Japanese." Journal of Association of Teachers of Japanese. 1995. pp. 79-126. Current Research Projects Semantics/pragmatic based analysis of Modern Japanese wh in-situ and its relation to Old Japanese interrogative constructions		Courses Taught Japan 111-3 Japan 342 Japan 440 Asian 498