Yamuna Kachru
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Yamuna Kachru's Degrees
- Masters Linguistics Delhi University
- Bachelors English Literature Delhi University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yamuna Kachru was Professor Emerita of Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Career Kachru studied linguistics at Deccan College in Poona, India, and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . She earned her PhD as SOAS in 1965 with a dissertation entitled A Transformational Treatment of Hindi Verbal Syntax, the first in-depth analysis of the Hindi language to utilize the Chomskyan framework. She taught Hindi at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London until she moved to the University of Illinois with her husband Braj Kachru in 1966. She held an academic position at UIUC for over 30 years, retiring in 1999.
Yamuna Kachru's Published Works
Published Works
- World Englishes in Asian Contexts (2006) (227)
- Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes (2006) (220)
- The Handbook of World Englishes (2019) (152)
- Sources of Bias in SLA: Research Monolingual Bias in SLA Research (1994) (94)
- Aspects of Hindi grammar (1980) (63)
- The Karmic cycle of world Englishes: some futuristic constructs (2009) (58)
- Teaching and Learning of World Englishes (2005) (51)
- Discourse analysis, non-native Englishes and second language acquisition research (1985) (48)
- Contrastive rhetoric in World Englishes (1995) (48)
- Cultural Meaning and Contrastive Rhetoric in English Education (1997) (45)
- Mixers lyricing in Hinglish: blending and fusion in Indian pop culture (2006) (41)
- Code-Mixing, Style Repertoire, and Language Variation: English in Hindi Poetic Creativity. (1989) (38)
- Relational grammar, ergativity, and Hindi-Urdu (1977) (36)
- An introduction to Hindi syntax (1966) (35)
- Speech acts in world Englishes: toward a framework for research (1991) (26)
- On ‘new/non-native’ Englishes: A gamelan (1995) (26)
- Language in South Asia: Language and modernization (2008) (23)
- On Definite Reference in World Englishes (2003) (22)
- Language variation and corpus linguistics (2008) (20)
- Culture and speech acts: Evidence from Indian and Singaporean English (1998) (20)
- Academic Writing in World Englishes: The Asian Context (2009) (19)
- SYMPOSIUM ON SPEECH ACTS IN WORLD ENGLISHES (1991) (19)
- World Englishes and Language Education (2012) (17)
- Speech acts in the other tongue: an integrated approach to cross‐cultural research (1992) (16)
- Ergativity, subjecthood and topicality in Hindu-Urdu (1987) (15)
- Cognitive and Cultural Styles in Second Language Acquisition (1988) (15)
- Discourse Strategies, Pragmatics and ESL (1985) (14)
- Cultures, contexts, and interpretability1: Cultures, contexts, and interpretability (2008) (14)
- English and Hindi (1982) (12)
- Introduction: The World of World Englishes (2008) (12)
- On the Semantics of the Causative Construction in Hindi-Urdu (1976) (11)
- A transformational treatment of Hindi verbal syntax. (1965) (11)
- Crosscultural Speech Act Research and the Classroom. (1994) (10)
- A note on possessive constructions in Hindi-Urdu (1970) (9)
- Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching: A Non-Western Perspective. (1985) (9)
- The syntax of ko‐sentences in Hindi‐Urdu (1970) (8)
- Language in South Asia: Hindi–Urdu–Hindustani (2008) (8)
- World Englishes and Rhetoric Across Cultures (2001) (8)
- Language in South Asia: Language in social and ethnic interaction (2008) (7)
- The Emerging ‘Dialect’ Conflict in Hindi: A Case of Glottopolitics (1978) (7)
- ON RELATIVE CLAUSE FORMATION IN HINDI-URDU (1978) (7)
- Causative sentences in Hindi revisited (1971) (7)
- Conjunct Verbs in Hindi-Urdu and Persian (1982) (6)
- Language in South Asia: South Asian languages in the second diaspora (2008) (5)
- Language in South Asia: Preface (2008) (5)
- Social meaning and creativity in Indian english speech acts (1993) (4)
- Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries (1995) (4)
- Kachru revisits contrasts (1996) (4)
- LITERACY, MINORITY LANGUAGES, AND MULTILINGUAL INDIA (2000) (4)
- Language in South Asia: List of Figures (2008) (4)
- Pedagogical Grammars: Second Language (2006) (3)
- Interpreting Indian English Expository Prose. (1988) (3)
- linguistics. titles include: "Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths" (Diane Larsen-Freeman); "Cross-Cultural Writing and Rhetorical Styles: Toward a 'Socially Realistic' Contrastive Rhetoric" (1995) (3)
- Speaking and Writing in World Englishes (2019) (2)
- Computer-Based Instruction in Elementary Hindi. (1981) (2)
- Language in South Asia: South Asian languages in the second diaspora (2008) (1)
- Amrit Rai, A house divided: The origin and development of Hindu-Urdu . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 322. Hb Rs. 75.00 (1993) (1)
- Rajend Mesthrie, Engligh in language shift: The history, structure and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English . Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 252. Hb $64.95. (1994) (1)
- World Englishes in Asian Contexts - By Yamuna Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson (2007) (1)
- 12 East African Englishes (2006) (1)
- The Copula in Hindi (1968) (1)
- World Englishes, Pragmatics, and Discourse (2017) (1)
- Language Education Policies in South Asia (2006) (1)
- 8. Syntax: Simple Sentence (2006) (0)
- 7. Verb and Verb Phrase (2006) (0)
- User reactions to A Comprehensive Grammar of English (1987) (0)
- The Semantics and Syntax of the Causative Construction in English and South Asian Languages: Implications for Teaching English as a Second Language. (1975) (0)
- Language in South Asia: References (2008) (0)
- NOTES ON PARTICIPANT ROLES AND GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES IN HINDI-URDU SENTENCES (1978) (0)
- The Karmic Cycle of World Englishes (2019) (0)
- Part I: Important social contexts in research on second language teaching and learning (2005) (0)
- Bilingual education: an international sociological perspective By Joshua A. Fishman (review) (2015) (0)
- 2. Sound System (2006) (0)
- Studies in Descriptive English Grammar (1980) (0)
- Relational grammar : a colloquium (1985) (0)
- Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-English (1987) (0)
- 11. Discourse Structure (2006) (0)
- 3. Devanagari Script (2006) (0)
- 4 Parts of speech (2006) (0)
- 9. Syntax: Complex and Compound Sentences (2006) (0)
- Language in South Asia: Note on Transcription (2008) (0)
- Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms (1987) (0)
- 6. The Noun Phrase (2006) (0)
- REVIEW: Gerry Knowles, Anne Wichmann, & Peter alderson (eds): Working with Speech: Perspectives on Research into the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus, and Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson: Corpus Linguistics (2000) (0)
- Language in South Asia: Acknowledgments (2008) (0)
- 5. Word Formation (2006) (0)
- Symbols and Abbreviations (2006) (0)
- 10. Information Structure (2006) (0)
- Abstracts for SoSy ‘22 (0)
- Linguistic Creativity and World Englishes Literatures (2012) (0)
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