Faculty Fellow
Lenore Grenoble
Biography
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Lenore А. Grenoble is the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages. She also holds positions as an Adjunct Professor at Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland) and as Director of the Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab at the M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia. Her research focuses on language contact and shift, vitality and sustainability, documentation and revitalization. Her primary fieldwork engages with speakers in far Northeastern Russia, Siberia, and Greenland. Grenoble is currently engaged in research that brings together linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic factors in contact-induced morphosyntactic change and shift, together with a study of the relationship of climate change, urbanization, language vitality, and well-being in Arctic Indigenous communities.
Topics
Featured Project
Linguistic Futures: Language Shift and Revitalization in Rethinking (Socio)linguistic Theory
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Projects
The Language of Kim
The Language of Kim
Studying “Kim,” an individual with a radically limited sensory palate, researchers formalized a new method of understanding the link between linguistic encoding of sensory perception and actual perception. |