Prof. Yamuna Kachru
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Professor Emerita
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Taught at Ranchi Women?s College, Ranchi, India briefly (1956-58)
- Between 1966-58 she attended various linguistic institutes held at Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune and other locations in India under the auspices of the Linguistic Society of India, Rockefeller Foundation and Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute,
- Written a number of books and over fifty research papers on various aspects of Hindi grammatical structure; among these are: An Introduction to Hindi Syntax (University of Illinois, Department of Linguistics, 1966), hindii ruppantara Naatmak vyaakaraN ke kuch prakaraN (Topics in a Transformational Grammar of Hindi, Central Institute of Hindi, Agra, 1974), Aspects of Hindi Syntax (Manohar, 1980), hindii kaa samsaamayik vyaakaraN (A Contemporary Grammar of Hindi, Macmillan Co. of India, 1980)
- Done pioneering research on discourse on Hindi
- Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies in India in1967-68, when she organized the first international conference on Hindi linguistics together with Dr. Braj Kachru
- Active in teaching Hindi to speakers of other languages, especially, English; work in this area is reflected in Intermediate Hindi (maadhyamik hindii, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1983); gone through many reprints
- Professor Kachru herself has conducted typological research on Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Kashmiri and other Indian languages
- More than forty scholars have completed their Ph.D. under the direction of Professor Kachru.
- Lectured on linguistic topics related to Hindi at national and international conferences in the USA and India and many other countries, e.g., Australia, Belgium, England, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore. She has also worked on Indian English, and English as used in Asian, African, and other countries around the world
- Member of the Editorial Board of World Englishes (journal, published by Blackwell, Oxford) and Asian Englishes Today? book series (Hong Kong University Press), and the Executive Committee of the International Association for World Englishes
