Kali Charan Bahl is an associate professor emeritus in two departments: South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Linguistics at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He specialized in Hindi and related languages or dialects.

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

Korwa people

Korba people are one of the scheduled tribes of India. They live in hills and forest of Chhotanagpur; the bordering area of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. They are socially and economically poor and outsiders often look down on them because of this...

, a Munda

Munda languages

-Anderson :Gregory Anderson's 1999 proposal is as follows. Individual languages are highlighted in italics.*North Munda **Korku**Kherwarian***Santhali***Mundari*South Munda **Kharia–Juang***Juang***Kharia...

 language.

Upon retirement, he made a large donation of his personal collection of books and documents to Regenstein Library

Regenstein Library

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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.