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
- Lenore A. Grenoble & Jessica Kantarovich. 2022. Reconstructing non-standard languages: A socially-anchored approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
- Diana Forker & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) 2021. Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
- 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.
Notes and References
- Web site: Lenore A. Grenoble . University of Chicago . April 14, 2017.
- Web site: Newly Elected Fellows . American Academy of Arts and Sciences . April 14, 2017.
- Web site: Lenore Grenoble : Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley . 2023-05-19 . en-US.
- Web site: Distinguished Classmates of Cornell 1979 honored at the 35th Reunion . 2023-05-19 . 79classmates.net.
- Web site: Lenore A. Grenoble . 2023-05-19 . scholar.google.de.
- Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. August 12, 2018.
- Web site: Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Division of the Humanities. humanities.uchicago.edu.
- Web site: Governance . February 14, 2018 . Linguistic Society of America.
- Web site: LSA Announces 2023 Class of Fellows Linguistic Society of America . 2023-05-19 . www.linguisticsociety.org.