Lenore Grenoble Explained

Birth Name:Lenore Ann Grenoble
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Title:A contrastive analysis of verbs of motion in Russian and Polish
Thesis Year:1986
Discipline:Linguist

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

Education and research

Grenoble earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley.[3] After receiving her PhD she took up an academic position at Dartmouth College. She remained there until 2007, when she moved to the University of Chicago.[4]

Her research focuses on the study of contact linguistics and language shift, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, and issues in the study of language endangerment, attrition, and revitalization.[5]

Honors and awards

In 2018, Grenoble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Linguistics.[6]

Grenoble was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[7] She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America for a five-year term from 2018 to 2023.[8] She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2023.[9]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lenore A. Grenoble . University of Chicago . April 14, 2017.
  2. Web site: Newly Elected Fellows . American Academy of Arts and Sciences . April 14, 2017.
  3. Web site: Lenore Grenoble : Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley . 2023-05-19 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Distinguished Classmates of Cornell 1979 honored at the 35th Reunion . 2023-05-19 . 79classmates.net.
  5. Web site: Lenore A. Grenoble . 2023-05-19 . scholar.google.de.
  6. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. August 12, 2018.
  7. Web site: Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Division of the Humanities. humanities.uchicago.edu.
  8. Web site: Governance . February 14, 2018 . Linguistic Society of America.
  9. Web site: LSA Announces 2023 Class of Fellows Linguistic Society of America . 2023-05-19 . www.linguisticsociety.org.