Professor Lenore Grenoble

Lenore Grenoble is the Carl Darling Buck Professor at the University of Chicago where she holds appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. She holds a BA from Cornell University (1979) and a PhD in Slavic linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1986). Her current research interests include the study of discourse phenomena, contact linguistics, language endangerment, and the relationship between language policy, language use and attrition, as well as other issues in the documentation and study of endangered minority languages. Her research is focused on the study of indigenous languages of Siberia, where she conducts fieldwork, most specifically on the Tungus languages.

More recently she has been involved in collaborative research with polar scientists, anthropologists and other social scientists to investigate the impact of environmental change on the linguistic, social and economic conditions of the peoples of the North. Together with Lindsay Whaley, she has created an open-access electronic journal devoted to research on lesser-studied languages Linguistic Discovery, a project developed with generous support from the Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College. The journal was designed to enable linguists throughout the world to have free and unlimited access to publishing and reading linguistic research on lesser-studied and endangered languages.

Sites related to these projects:

The Tungus Research Group: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~trg

Institute of Arctic Studies: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arctic

Linguistic Discovery: http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu