Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages: A socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 52] 2022. xv, 354 pp.
Lenore A. Grenoble
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lenore A. Grenoble plays a role.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Language Documentation: Practice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation | Theoretical linguistics
Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
Lenore A. Grenoble
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 50] 1998. xviii, 338 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2023 Understanding language shift Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 122–132 | Reply
This is a response to the commentaries on our epistemological paper, The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies. The commentaries highlight the challenges in studying language shift ecologies and the competing goals of different research approaches. We hope this set of papers… read more
2023 The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 1–39 | Article
A large percentage of the world’s languages – anywhere from 50 to 90% – are currently spoken in what we call shift ecologies, situations of unstable bi- or multilingualism where speakers, and in particular younger speakers, do not use their ancestral language but rather speak the majority… read more
2021 Some structural similarities in the outcomes of language contact with Russian Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana and Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.), pp. 259–288 | Chapter
This paper surveys a broad range of languages in contact with Russian to provide an overview of a core set of similarities in the outcomes of contact-induced change. We consider both lexical and structural borrowings, focusing on five categories: adjectives, verbs, indefinite pronouns,… read more
2021 Introduction Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana and Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2014 Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 111–132 | Article
Evenki, a Northwest Tungusic language, exhibits an extensive system of nominal cases, deictic terms, and relator nouns, used to signal complex spatial relations. The paper describes the use and distribution of the spatial cases which signal stative and dynamic relations, with special attention to… read more
2013 Talking out of turn: (Co)-constructing Russian conversation Approaches to Slavic Interaction, Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), pp. 17–33 | Article
This paper examines the use of co-constructions in spontaneous Russian conversations. Co-constructions are found when one speaker completes another speaker’s utterance, that is, a co-construction is a syntactic unit created within a single turn construction unit but by multiple speakers.… read more
2013 The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 357–382 | Article
This paper considers the changes in clause-combining structures as the Siberian Tungusic languages, represented here by Evenki, are undergoing shift due to contact with Russian. Native clause-combining strategies, specifically parataxis and subordination with converb forms, are being replaced by… read more
2013 Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization: New directions for research and action Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan, Mihas, Elena, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 43–58 | Article
The last twenty years have witnessed an explosion of research on issues of language endangerment, with the emergence of documentary linguistics and the growth of language revitalization programs, resulting in changes in methodologies and in subfields within linguistics. The present article assesses… read more
2010 Preface Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. xiii–xviii | Preface
2010 Language documentation and field linguistics: The state of the field Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 289–310 | Article
Language documentation has emerged as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. This paper draws together issues raised throughout the volume as to the nature of documentation from every angle – from early… read more
2010 Language vitality and revitalization in the Arctic New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization, Flores Farfán, José Antonio and Fernando F. Ramallo (eds.), pp. 65–92 | Article
A prime case study for exploring the potentially conflicting agendas of language documentation and revitalization is Evenki, a Tungusic language spoken by approximately 5000 people living in small villages scattered throughout much of Siberia. Historically the Evenki people were nomadic herders and… read more
2003 The Case for Dialect Continua in Tungusic: Plural Morphology Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Holisky, Dee Ann and Kevin Tuite (eds.), pp. 97–122 | Article
1999 Gender and conversational management in Russian Slavic Gender Linguistics, Mills, Margaret H. (ed.), pp. 113–130 | Article
1995 Spatial configurations, deixis and apartment descriptions in Russian Pragmatics 5:3, pp. 365–385 | Article