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Lenore A. Grenoble

Department of Russian
Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
6085 Reed Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

(603) 646-3404
Email: lenore.grenoble@dartmouth.edu
Office: 303 Reed Hall

Professor of Russian & Linguistics, Ph.D. (Slavic Linguistics), University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Associate Dean of the Humanities

Research Interests

  • Semantics and discourse analysis
  • Slavic and Tungusic languages
  • Deixis
  • Verbal categories
  • Language endangerment and revitalization

Courses Taught

  • Introductory Linguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Semantics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Syntax
  • Linguistic Structure of Modern Russian
  • History of the Russian Language

Selected Publications

  • 2006 (with L. Whaley) Saving Languages.  An Introduction to Language Revitilization.  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.
  • 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.
  • 1999 (with L. Whaley and F. Li) "Revisiting Tungusic Classification from the Bottom Up: A Comparison of Evenki and Oroqen," Language.

Last Updated: 8/27/08