Lenore Grenoble

Lenore Grenoble
Born Lenore Ann Grenoble
Academic background
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Thesis A contrastive analysis of verbs of motion in Russian and Polish (1986)
Academic work
Discipline Linguist
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Lenore A. Grenoble is an American linguist specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages, currently the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor and Chair at University of Chicago.[1][2]

Grenoble earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley.[1] Her research is primarily concerned with endangered languages.[1] She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America for a five year term from 2018 to 2023.[3] In 2018, Grenoble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Linguistics.[4]

Selected works

Balthasar Bickel, David A. Peterson, Lenore A. Grenoble & Alan Timberlake (eds.) 2013. Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.

Lenore A. Grenoble & N. Louanna Furbee (eds.) 2010. Language Documentation: Practices and Values. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.

Lenore A. Grenoble & Lindsay J. Whaley. 2006. Saving Languages. An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lenore A. Grenoble. 2003. Language Policy in the Former Soviet Union. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.

Nadezhda Ja. Bulatova & Lenore A. Grenoble. 1999. Evenki. Languages of the World Materials/141. Munich: Lincom.

Lenore A. Grenoble & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.) 1998. Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lenore A. Grenoble. 1998. Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse. Pragmatics & Beyond, 50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.

Lenore A. Grenoble & John M. Kopper (eds.) 1997. Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lenore A. Grenoble". University of Chicago. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Newly Elected Fellows". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Governance". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved August 12, 2018.


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