Wataru Okubo

Profile

• Ph.D student in linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
• Adjunct researcher at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
• Annotation member of the NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ)

• My name in kanji: 大久保 弥
• My name in Persian: واتارو اوکوبو
• My name in IPA: [ɰatarɯ oːkɯ̥bo]

Research Interest

• Persian language
  • Focus/discourse-sensitive particles
  • Copular constructions
• Information Structure
  • Syntax and semantics of focus particles
• Treebank corpora