This festschrift contains papers on theoretical and applied issues relating to linguistics with special reference to India. Papers include Ancient Indian and modern generative linguistics with some comparative observations; Optimality of language design – towards a unification; Linguistic content in human thought; Case theta role relation in Kurux; Critical analysis of the classical theory; From monolingualism to multilingualism; Urdu as a pan Indian language; Globalisation and need to English; focus on south Asia; Right to use to Mother tongue; Socio-semiotic and psycho-communicative dimension of slangs, and some more papers on related topics. These papers are of special interest to students, researchers, and linguists.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Omkar N. Koul
Dr. Omkar N. Koul is Chairman of the Indian Institute of Language Studies. He has held the positions of Director, and Professor-cum-Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Professor of LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, and Principal of Northern Regional Language center, Patiala. His publications related to Kashmiri language and linguistics include Linguistics Studies in Kashmiri (1977), Kashmiri: A Socio linguistics Survey (co-author), 1983), An intensive Course in Kashmsiri (1985), Spoken Kashmiri: A Language Course (1987), An Intermediate Course in Kashmiri (1995), Kashmiri: A Descriptive-Cognitive Grammar (co-author, 1997), Kashmiri Language Linguistics and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography (2000) and a large number of papers.
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