Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Fields of Interest
Biography
PhD 1989, University of Texas at Austin
Prof. Ogihara specializes in formal semantics of natural language. The languages that his research deals with are English and Japanese. His past research concentrated on temporal semantics (tense and aspect) but also dealt with some related research issues such as modality, conditionals, issues having to do with discourse, attitude verbs. Prof. Ogihara is also interested in Japanese linguistics, especially issues having to do with semantics such as categorical vs. thetic judgments.
Research
Research Advised
- An, YoungEun. "Characteristic Determiners vs. Adjectives in Korean." Honors Thesis, U of Washington, 2015/2016.
- William S. Robinson. "Counterfactuals in Context: Felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names." MA Thesis. U of Washington, 2014.
- Kyoko Sano. "Rhetorical Counterfactuals." MA Thesis. U of Washington, 2012.
- Naoko Komoto. "Topics in the semantics of English and Japanese modals." Diss. U of Washington, 2011.
- Dan McCloy. "The Semantics of Implicitly Relational Predicates." MA Thesis. U of Washington, 2008/2009.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
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