Teaching Professor Contact Information kaoru@uw.edu 206-543-6936 GWN 246 Fields of Interest Japanese Language Pedagogy Linguistics Morphology Syntax Biography Current Research Projects: Semantics/pragmatic based analysis of Modern Japanese wh in-situ and its relation to Old Japanese interrogative constructions Research Selected Research Kaoru Ohta. "Kakari-musubi and Focus Structure." Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10 (2002): 293-305. Kaoru Ohta. "Tense in the Subject Raising Construction." Japanese/Korean Linguistics. 1997. 353-368. Kaoru Ohta. "The Verbal Stem Form of Japanese." Journal of Association of Teachers of Japanese (1995): 79-126. Courses Taught Spring 2025JAPAN 103 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 412 A: Virtual Tokyo Winter 2025JAPAN 102 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 AA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 AE: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 BA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 BE: First-Year Japanese Autumn 2024JAPAN 101 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 AA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 AC: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BC: First-Year Japanese Summer 2024JAPAN 134 A: First-Year Intensive Japanese Spring 2024JAPAN 103 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 AG: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 AK: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 BG: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 BK: First-Year Japanese Winter 2024JAPAN 102 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 AJ: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 AL: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 BJ: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 BL: First-Year Japanese Autumn 2023JAPAN 101 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 AJ: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 AL: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BJ: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BL: First-Year Japanese Summer 2023JAPAN 134 A: First-Year Intensive Japanese Winter 2023JAPAN 102 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 AI: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 AK: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 BI: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 BK: First-Year Japanese Autumn 2022JAPAN 101 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 AI: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 AK: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BI: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 101 BK: First-Year Japanese Summer 2022JAPAN 134 A: First-Year Intensive Japanese Spring 2022JAPAN 103 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 AA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 AC: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 BA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 BC: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 C: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 CA: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 103 CC: First-Year Japanese Winter 2022JAPAN 102 A: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 B: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 102 C: First-Year Japanese JAPAN 412 A: Virtual Tokyo Resources & Related Links Kaoru Ohta's Website Affiliations Home Department Asian Languages & Literature Related News Related News Professor Kaoru Ohta Featured in Northwest Asian Weekly (June 3, 2024) The New Normal? Remote Teaching in Asian Languages and Literature (August 19, 2020) Virtual Tokyo - A New Japanese Class in Spring 2020 (June 25, 2019)
