Lenore A. Grenoble is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages, currently the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor and Chair at

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. Grenoble earned her

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in Slavic Linguistics at

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. Her research is primarily concerned with

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s. She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the

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for a five-year term from 2018 to 2023. In 2018, Grenoble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Linguistics. She was elected to the

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in 2017.

Selected works

* Diana Forker & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) 2021. ''Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union.'' Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press. *

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, 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:

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. * 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.

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