S. N. Sridhar

S.N. Sridhar is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Linguistics and India Studies, founding Director of the Center for India Studies, and founding Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.  He received the B.A. (Honors) and M.A. degrees in English Literature and Linguistics from Bangalore University and the A.M. in TESL and the Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Professor Sridhar has conducted extensive research in bilingualism (language contact and convergence), sociolinguistics (code-switching, code-mixing, language modernization, language spread), second language acquisition and teaching in non-native settings, structure and functions of Indian English and other World Englishes, descriptive linguistics (reference grammar of Kannada), theoretical linguistics (syntax of dative subjects, causatives, morphology of agglutination, level ordering, productivity), psycholinguistics (cross-linguistic experimental study of cognitive universals of sentence production, representation and processing of bilingualism), applied linguistics (scope and relation to linguistic theory), historical linguistics (acquisition of subjecthood, contact-induced change), and history of linguistics (contributions of the Indian grammatical tradition to linguistic theory), as well as in Kannada literature (Kumaravyasa).  Professor Sridhar is author of  Kannada:  Descriptive Grammar (Routledge, 1990, Modern Kannada Grammar (Manohar, 2011), Cognition and Sentence Production:  A Cross-Linguistic Study (Springer Verlag, 1986), and Indina Kannada:  Racane mattu Balake (“Contemporary Kannada:  Structure and Function,” Kannada University, 1995 and Abhinava, 2009).  He is also co-editor of two reference books Ananya:  A Portrait of India (AIA, 1997), and Language in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2008),  six special issues of research journals, and nine other journals, and has authored numerous research papers.      Professor Sridhar co-founded the Center for India Studies at the Stony Brook University, serving as its Director from 1997-2002 and 2008 to the present. In developing the Center as a model of university-community partnership for academic, social and cultural enrichment, Professor Sridhar has successfully mobilized the Indian community in support of a multi-dimensional program of India Studies. The Center helps teach some 30 courses per year
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