Yamuna Kachru

Yamuna Kachru (5 March 1933 in Purulia - 19 April 2013 in Urbana, Illinois)(, यमुना काचरु (Devanagari)) was Professor Emerita of Linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the wife of Braj Kachru and the mother of Shamit Kachru. She published a series of research articles in applied linguistics, mostly on the problem of linguistic creativity. Kachru was a co-founder of the International Association of World Englishes.^[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. Yamuna Kachru

External links

• In Memoriam: Dr Yamuna Kachru (1933–2013)