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Lenore Grenoble

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Lenore Grenoble
Born
Lenore Ann Grenoble
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisA contrastive analysis of verbs of motion in Russian and Polish(1986)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Lenore A. Grenobleis an Americanlinguistspecializing inSlavicandArctic Indigenouslanguages. She is currently theJohn Matthews ManlyDistinguished Service Professor and chair atUniversity of Chicago.[1][2]

Education and research

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Grenoble earned herPh.D.inSlavic LinguisticsatUniversity of California, Berkeley.[3]After receiving her PhD she took up an academic position atDartmouth College.She remained there until 2007, when she moved to the University of Chicago.[4]

Her research focuses on the study ofcontact linguisticsandlanguage shift,discourse andconversation analysis,deixis,and issues in the study oflanguage endangerment,attrition, andrevitalization.[5]

Honors and awards

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In 2018, Grenoble was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowshipfor her work in Linguistics.[6]

Grenoble was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 2017.[7]She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of theLinguistic Society of Americafor a five-year term from 2018 to 2023.[8]She was inducted as aFellow of the Linguistic Society of Americain 2023.[9]

Selected works

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^"Lenore A. Grenoble".University of Chicago.RetrievedApril 14,2017.
  2. ^"Newly Elected Fellows".American Academy of Arts and Sciences.RetrievedApril 14,2017.
  3. ^"Lenore Grenoble: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley".Retrieved2023-05-19.
  4. ^"Distinguished Classmates of Cornell 1979 honored at the 35th Reunion".79classmates.net.Retrieved2023-05-19.
  5. ^"Lenore A. Grenoble".scholar.google.de.Retrieved2023-05-19.
  6. ^"John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"(PDF).RetrievedAugust 12,2018.
  7. ^"Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Division of the Humanities".humanities.uchicago.edu.
  8. ^"Governance".Linguistic Society of America.RetrievedFebruary 14,2018.
  9. ^"LSA Announces 2023 Class of Fellows | Linguistic Society of America".linguisticsociety.org.Retrieved2023-05-19.