Lenore Grenoble | |
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Born | Lenore Ann Grenoble |
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Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | A contrastive analysis of verbs of motion in Russian and Polish (1986) |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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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]
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]
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]
Lenore Grenoble | |
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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 |
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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]
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]
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]