Lenore Grenoble

• Slavic languages
• Arctic Indigenous languages
• Endangered languages

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)
Institutions	University of Chicago Dartmouth College

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] Grenoble received the Quantrell Award in 2025. ^[10]

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.

References

1. "Lenore A. Grenoble". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on April 15, 2017. 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 May 19, 2023.
4. "Distinguished Classmates of Cornell 1979 honored at the 35th Reunion". 79classmates.net. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
5. "Lenore A. Grenoble". scholar.google.de. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
6. "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 6, 2018. 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 May 19, 2023.
10. "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". UChicago.