Omkar N. Koul

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Professor Omkar N. Koul has held various positions in Government of India. He was Director (1999-2000), and Professor-cum-Deputy Director (1994-1999) of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore; Professor and Head of the Faculty of Languages (1987-1994) of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie; Principal (1971-1987) of the Northern Regional Language Centre (CIIL), Patiala. He is Editor of the bi-annual journal South Asian Language Review (1990-).

His areas of interest are linguistics, language education, communication and comparative literature. He has worked on Kashmiri, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi languages.

[edit] Kashmiri books

His books related to Kashmiri include:

• Linguistic Studies in Kashmiri(1977)
• Aspects of Kashmiri Linguistics (co-editor, 1984)
• An Intensive Course in Kashmiri (1985)
• A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs (1992, 2006)
• An Intermediate Course in Kashmiri (1995)
• Kashmiri: A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar (co-author, 1997)
• Kashmiri Language, Linguistics and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography (2000)
• Topics in Kashmiri Linguistics (co-editor, 2002)
• Studies in Kashmiri Linguistics (2005)
• Modern Kashmiri Grammar (co-author, 2006)
• Spoken Kashmiri: A Language course (1987,2006)
• Kashmiri: A Study in Comparative Indo-Aryan Languages (co-author, forthcoming)
• Kashmiri Newspaper Reader (forthcoming).

[edit] Other works

His other publications include:

• Language in Education(1983)
• Urdu Phonetic Reader(co-auth. 1980)
• Punjabi Phonetic Reader (co-auth 1980)
• Modes of Address and Pronominal Usage in Punjabi(co-auth. 1989)
• Topics in Hindi Linguistics ( Editor Vol II 1981, Vol. III 1996, Vol IV 1999)
• Language Style and Discourse(Ed. 1987, 1992)
• English in India: Theoretical and Applied(Ed. 1991)
• Language Development and Administration (Ed. 1994)
• Effective Communication Skills( Co-auth. 1994, 1995)
• Perspectives in Sociolinguistics(Ed. 1995)
• Translation: Issues and Perspectives( Co-ed. 2003)

He writes short stories in Hindi and Kashmiri languages. A collection of his short stories in Hindi entitled Mulaaqaat(2001) is translated and published in Kashmiri and Urdu languages.

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