Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Autumn Quarter 2009
• Winter Quarter 2010

Toshiyuki Ogihara
LING 480
Seattle Campus

Topics in Linguistics

Introduction to an area of linguistic study not covered by the regular departmental course offerings.

Class description

Autumn 2008 -

Subtitle: Semantics of Japanese

This course introduces the student to show how to analyze Japanese using formal semantics tools. The topics to be covered include nominal quantification, categorical and thetic Judgments (wa and ga), complex predicates, connectives, and tense & aspect. I expect each student to be equipped with a good knowledge of theoretical linguistics, especially syntax and semantics, and a structural knowledge of Japanese.

Prerequisite: JAPAN 113 or higher; an introductory linguistics course (Ling 200, Ling 400, Asian 401, or Japan 400 preferred). Recommended but not required; further coursework in linguistics, especially LING 442; JAPAN 213 or higher; JAPAN 342. PHIL 120 should also be helpful. Interested graduate students who lack one of the prerequisites should contact the instructor.

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