Lenore A. Grenoble
Carl Darling Buck Professor, Slavic Linguistic Associate Chair
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1130 E. 59th St.
Foster 416
Chicago, IL 60636
Office: (773) 702-0927
http://home.uchicago.edu/~grenoble/index.html
grenoble@uchicago.edu
Lenore Grenoble is interested in Slavic, Tungusic and languages of the North, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, contact linguistics and language endangerment, attrition, and revitalization. She currently serves on the Advisory panel of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Project, housed at London University School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her fieldwork focuses on languages of Siberia and she is currently engaged in research on the interrelations between language, culture and environment in the North.
Education
- Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Recent Publications
- 2006 (with L. Whaley): Saving Languages. An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press.
- 2003: Language Policy in the Soviet Union. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
- 1999 (with N. Bulatova): Evenki. (Languages of the World, 141). Munich: Lincom.
- 1999 (with L. Whaley and F. Li): "Revisiting Tungusic Classification from the Bottom Up: A Comparison of Evenki and Oroqen," Language.
- 1998: Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse. (Pragmatics & Beyond Series, 50). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
- 1998 (co-edited with L Whaley): Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1997 (co-edited with J. Kopper): Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.