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. 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

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. ^ "Lenore Grenoble : Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley". Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  4. ^ "Distinguished Classmates of Cornell 1979 honored at the 35th Reunion". 79classmates.net. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  5. ^ "Lenore A. Grenoble". scholar.google.de. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  6. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved August 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. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  9. ^ "LSA Announces 2023 Class of Fellows | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.


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