S N SridharS.N. Sridhar is Professor of Linguistics and India Studies and Director of the Center for India Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has also served as Founding Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at th State University of New York. Stony Brook. He received B.A. (Honors) and M.A. degrees in English Literature and Linguistics from Bangalore University and 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 in non-native settings, structure and functions of India English and other World Englishes, teaching English as a second language, descriptive linguistics (reference grammar of Kannada), theoretical linguistics (syntax of dative subjects, morphology of agglutination, level ordering, productivity), psycholinguistics (cross-linguistic experimental study of cognitive universals of sentence production), applied linguistics (scope and relation to linguistic theory), and history of linguistics (contributions of the Indian grammatical tradition to linguistic theory)."In addition to the present book, Professor Sridhar has authored Cognition and SentenceProduction: A Cross-Linguistic Study (1986) and Indina Kannada: Racane mattu Balake Contemporary Kannada: Structure and Function' (1995 and 2009 Read More Read Less