Lenore Grenoble


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.

Education and research

Grenoble earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. 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.
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.

Honors and awards

In 2018, Grenoble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Linguistics.
Grenoble was elected to the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences] in 2017. She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America for a five-year term from 2018 to 2023. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2023. Grenoble received the Quantrell Award in 2025.

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 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 2013. Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
  • Lenore A. Grenoble & N. Louanna Furbee 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 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 1997. Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.