Lenore Grenoble

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]

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	Slavic languages Arctic Indigenous languages Endangered languages
Institutions	University of Chicago Dartmouth College

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]

She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[5]

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. "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.
5. "Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Division of the Humanities". humanities.uchicago.edu.