Yamuna Kachru

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Yamuna Kachru
Born(1933-03-05)5 March 1933
Purulia, West Bengal, India
Died19 April 2013(2013-04-19) (aged 80)
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Education
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • professor
SpouseBraj Kachru
Children2, including Shamit Kachru

Yamuna Kachru (यमुना काचरु, (Devanagari)) (5 March 1933 in Purulia, West Bengal, India - 19 April 2013 in Urbana, Illinois[1]) was Professor Emerita of Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Career

Kachru studied linguistics at

School of Oriental and African Studies, London until she moved to the University of Illinois (UIUC) with her husband Braj Kachru in 1966.[3] She held an academic position at UIUC for over 30 years, retiring in 1999.[1]

She wrote a grammar of

second language acquisition.[1]

Kachru was from the establishment of the field a leading scholar of

world Englishes,[4] and was a co-founder of the International Association of World Englishes.[1][5]

Awards

Kachru was the 2004 recipient of the Padmabhushan Dr. Moturi Satyanarayan Award[6]

In September 2006 she received the Presidential Award from the President of India from the president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam for her contributions to the study of Hindi language.[7][1]

Personal life

She was the wife of fellow linguist Braj Kachru, with whom she frequently collaborated. They had two children: Stanford professor Shamit Kachru and physician Amita Kachru.[1]

Books

  • "An Introduction to Hindi Syntax" (1967)
  • "Aspects of Hindi Grammar" (1980)
  • "Intermediate Hindi" (with Rajeshwari Pandharipande, 1983)
  • "Hindi" (a grammar, 2006)
  • "World Englishes in Asian Contexts" (with Cecil Nelson, 2006)
  • "Handbook of World Englishes" (edited with Braj Kachru and Cecil Nelson, 2007)
  • "Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes" (co-authored with Larry Smith, 2008)
  • "Language in South Asia" (edited with Braj Kachru and S.N. Sridhar, 2008).

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Obituaries: Yamuna Kachru". The News-Gazette. Champaign, Illinois. 29 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ "List of PhD dissertations, SOAS University of London". eprints.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  3. ISSN 1348-8678
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  4. ISSN 1348-8678
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  5. ^ "About IAWE". International Association for World Englishes Inc. (IAWE). Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  6. ^ "पद्मभूषण डॉ. मोटूरि सत्यानारायण पुरस्कार". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
  7. ^ Lynn, Andrea (13 September 2006). "U. of I. linguistics scholar to receive Presidential Award in India" (Press release). Champaign: University of Illinois. Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 15 June 2016.

External links

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