Kali Charan Bahl Explained

Kali Charan Bahl is an associate professor emeritus in two departments: South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He specialized in Hindi and related languages or dialects.^[1]

Bahl has published more than half a dozen books, in both Hindi and English, about the grammar, semantics, and dialectology of Hindi. He also did research in the 1960s on Korwa, a Munda language.

Upon retirement, he made a large donation of his personal collection of books and documents to Regenstein Library.^[2]

Works

• Norman H. Zide, Colin P. Masica, Kalicharan Bahl and Anoop C. Chandola, Editors. A Premchand Reader. Honolulu: East-West Center Press. 1962.
• 1963. Korwa Vocabulary. Mimeo., Chicago.
• Reference grammar of Hindi (a study of some selected topics in Hindi grammar, 1967
• On the present state of modern Rajasthani grammar, Rājasthānī Sódha Saṃsthāna, 1972
• Ādhunika Rājasthānī kā saṃracanātmaka vyākaraṇa, Rājasthānī Śodha Saṃsthāna, 1980
• Studies in the semantic structure of Hindi: synonymous nouns and adjectives with karana, Motilal Banarsidass, 1974
• Study in the transformational analysis of the Hindi verb, 196u.
• The concept of person as a relational category in Modern Standard Hindi and interpersonal speech-behavior on the parts of its partakers, University of Chicago, 2007.

Notes and References

1. Web site: University of Chicago website, South Asia at Chicago, accessed 2009-04-04 . 5 April 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090211070730/http://southasia.uchicago.edu/faccont.htm . 11 February 2009 . dead .
2. https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/about.html The University of Chicago Library, "About the Southern Asia Collection", accessed 2009-04-04