Lenore A Grenoble
Biographic Data
| ID | 126946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lenore A Grenoble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lenore A |
| FAMILY NAME | Grenoble |
| SIGNATURE | GRENOBLE L A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linguistic Diversity
Although it is somewhat difficult to count languages and to measure linguistic diversity with exact precision, there are estimated to be between 6,000 and 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. Languages can be classified genealogically or typologically. Genealogical classification involves the relationships of languages from a common ancestor, how they are related in terms of linguistic families. Typological classification involves how langu…
Plants in the Sakha Culture
Knowledge and use of plants among the Sakha (orYakut) people are reflected in their naming practices for the plants according to habitat. The Sakha are a Turkic people with a total population of approximately 500,000, living primarily in the vast territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, a region comprising Arctic and Subarctic zones. The Sakha plant lexicon encodes knowledge and cultural information about how the Sa…
An Ontology of Landscape and Seascape in Greenland
The linguistic encoding of landscape and seascape in Kalaallisut, an Unangan-Yupik-Inuit language spoken on the west coast of Greenland, exists within a complex domain of spatial language, coming together with a coastal-based orientation system and an extensive demonstrative system anchored in the geophysiography of Greenland. In this paper we describe the Kalaallisut landscape lexicon, unpacking its categorization as well as the close relationsh…
A response to ‘Assessing levels of endangerment in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) using the Language Endangerment Index (LEI)’, by Nala Huiying Lee & John Van Way
The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) is one of several similar responses to a perceived need for better data on language vitality. My remarks here are framed as a direct reply to Lee & Van Way's article, but really address larger issues in the ongoing debate about a perceived need to classify, inventory, and enumerate endangered languages. Lee & Van Way focus on one aspect of ELCat, the Language Endangerment Index (LEI), discussing a num…
Small-Language Fates and Prospects
Reviewed by: Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages by Nancy C. Dorian Lenore A. Grenoble Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages. Nancy C. Dorian. Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition, and Culture 6. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xiv + 476. $162.00 (hardcover). This volume is a collection of twenty-three of Nancy Dorian’s articles, along…
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Documenting Knowledge
The native language of west Greenland, Kalaallisut, is robust, with over 50 000 speakers among approximately 56 000 inhabitants. However, many people in Nuuk, the capital and largest city, believe traditional knowledge of plant uses has been lost as a result of extensive Danish contact. Our findings indicate that in southern Greenland local knowledge of plant uses is greater than believed. Interviews conducted with people in two southern communit…
Language typology and historical contingency
Linguistic Diversity
Although it is somewhat difficult to count languages and to measure linguistic diversity with exact precision, there are estimated to be between 6,000 and 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. Languages can be classified genetically or typologically. Genetic classification involves the relationships of languages from a common ancestor, how they are related in terms of linguistic families. Typological classification involves how languages are…
A praxis for ethical research and scientific conduct in Greenland
The last 30 years have seen remarkable changes in the political and social structure of Greenland. In 1979 Home Rule was proclaimed, giving the territory some measure of autonomy from Denmark. Self-Government (Naalakkersuisut) was instituted in June 2009 after a referendum, giving Greenland control over all areas of governance except foreign affairs and defence, which remain under Danish control. At present neither the Self-Government authorities…
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. third edition . Christopher Moseley
Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages
This chapter contains sections titled: The Slavic Languages and Contact Prehistoric Contact Finno-Ugric Contact and the Finno-Ugric Substrate in Russian Contact in the Early History of the Slavs Western European Languages and Slavic Slavic Languages in Contact Conclusion Notes References
When Languages Die
Note to Volume 4.1
A note from the editors
Saving Languages
Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization, written not only for linguists and anthropologists, but also for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their predicted loss. Drawing extensively…
Parentheticals in Russian
Language Policy in the Soviet Union
What Does Yaghan Have to Do with Digital Technology
Digital media offers some powerful new ways to organize and transmit linguistic data. This editorial suggests that linguists need to be more aggressive in exploting the technology so that information about language is spread more rapidly and in a more efficient format. To make this point, the case of fieldwork on Yaghan is examined. Though early fieldwork was carried out on Yaghan very little about the language is known because of the way the dat…
Archiving Electronic Journals
An editorial on issues of archiving in the world of electronic journals
Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation
Language policy and the loss of Tungusic languages
Revisiting Tungusic Classification from the Bottom up
Efforts to determine the genetic relations among Tungusic languages have been dominated by a methodology that categorizes the entire family on the basis of a small number of sound correspondences and some shared inflectional morphology, despite the fact that this evidence can be interpreted in contradictory ways. The approach, styled after traditional classification, which uses a tree model, is even less successful in indicating the relationships…
Endangered Languages
This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume fall into four categories. The chapters by Dorian and Grenoble and Whaley provide an overview of langua…
Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
The role deixis plays in structuring language and its relation to the context of utterance provides the focus for an examination of information packaging in Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a model which interprets discourse as constituted by four interrelated frameworks — the linguistic text, the text setting, the text content, and the participant framework. Deixis is divided into three primary dimensions of time, space, and person, w…
Endangered Languages
Double negation in Russian
Parentheticals in Russian
An Ontology of Landscape and Seascape in Greenland
The linguistic encoding of landscape and seascape in Kalaallisut, an Unangan-Yupik-Inuit language spoken on the west coast of Greenland, exists within a complex domain of spatial language, coming together with a coastal-based orientation system and an extensive demonstrative system anchored in the geophysiography of Greenland. In this paper we describe the Kalaallisut landscape lexicon, unpacking its categorization as well as the close relationsh…
A praxis for ethical research and scientific conduct in Greenland
The last 30 years have seen remarkable changes in the political and social structure of Greenland. In 1979 Home Rule was proclaimed, giving the territory some measure of autonomy from Denmark. Self-Government (Naalakkersuisut) was instituted in June 2009 after a referendum, giving Greenland control over all areas of governance except foreign affairs and defence, which remain under Danish control. At present neither the Self-Government authorities…
Language policy and the loss of Tungusic languages
Revisiting Tungusic Classification from the Bottom up
Efforts to determine the genetic relations among Tungusic languages have been dominated by a methodology that categorizes the entire family on the basis of a small number of sound correspondences and some shared inflectional morphology, despite the fact that this evidence can be interpreted in contradictory ways. The approach, styled after traditional classification, which uses a tree model, is even less successful in indicating the relationships…
Double negation in Russian
Endangered Languages
Negation and the Infinitive
Double negation in Russian
Endangered Languages
Endangered Languages
This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume fall into four categories. The chapters by Dorian and Grenoble and Whaley provide an overview of langua…
Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
The role deixis plays in structuring language and its relation to the context of utterance provides the focus for an examination of information packaging in Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a model which interprets discourse as constituted by four interrelated frameworks — the linguistic text, the text setting, the text content, and the participant framework. Deixis is divided into three primary dimensions of time, space, and person, w…
Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation
Language policy and the loss of Tungusic languages
Revisiting Tungusic Classification from the Bottom up
Efforts to determine the genetic relations among Tungusic languages have been dominated by a methodology that categorizes the entire family on the basis of a small number of sound correspondences and some shared inflectional morphology, despite the fact that this evidence can be interpreted in contradictory ways. The approach, styled after traditional classification, which uses a tree model, is even less successful in indicating the relationships…
What Does Yaghan Have to Do with Digital Technology
Digital media offers some powerful new ways to organize and transmit linguistic data. This editorial suggests that linguists need to be more aggressive in exploting the technology so that information about language is spread more rapidly and in a more efficient format. To make this point, the case of fieldwork on Yaghan is examined. Though early fieldwork was carried out on Yaghan very little about the language is known because of the way the dat…
Archiving Electronic Journals
An editorial on issues of archiving in the world of electronic journals
Language Policy in the Soviet Union
Parentheticals in Russian
Saving Languages
Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization, written not only for linguists and anthropologists, but also for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their predicted loss. Drawing extensively…
Note to Volume 4.1
A note from the editors
When Languages Die
Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages
This chapter contains sections titled: The Slavic Languages and Contact Prehistoric Contact Finno-Ugric Contact and the Finno-Ugric Substrate in Russian Contact in the Early History of the Slavs Western European Languages and Slavic Slavic Languages in Contact Conclusion Notes References
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. third edition . Christopher Moseley
Linguistic Diversity
Although it is somewhat difficult to count languages and to measure linguistic diversity with exact precision, there are estimated to be between 6,000 and 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. Languages can be classified genetically or typologically. Genetic classification involves the relationships of languages from a common ancestor, how they are related in terms of linguistic families. Typological classification involves how languages are…
A praxis for ethical research and scientific conduct in Greenland
The last 30 years have seen remarkable changes in the political and social structure of Greenland. In 1979 Home Rule was proclaimed, giving the territory some measure of autonomy from Denmark. Self-Government (Naalakkersuisut) was instituted in June 2009 after a referendum, giving Greenland control over all areas of governance except foreign affairs and defence, which remain under Danish control. At present neither the Self-Government authorities…
Language typology and historical contingency
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Documenting Knowledge
The native language of west Greenland, Kalaallisut, is robust, with over 50 000 speakers among approximately 56 000 inhabitants. However, many people in Nuuk, the capital and largest city, believe traditional knowledge of plant uses has been lost as a result of extensive Danish contact. Our findings indicate that in southern Greenland local knowledge of plant uses is greater than believed. Interviews conducted with people in two southern communit…
A response to ‘Assessing levels of endangerment in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) using the Language Endangerment Index (LEI)’, by Nala Huiying Lee & John Van Way
The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) is one of several similar responses to a perceived need for better data on language vitality. My remarks here are framed as a direct reply to Lee & Van Way's article, but really address larger issues in the ongoing debate about a perceived need to classify, inventory, and enumerate endangered languages. Lee & Van Way focus on one aspect of ELCat, the Language Endangerment Index (LEI), discussing a num…
Small-Language Fates and Prospects
Reviewed by: Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages by Nancy C. Dorian Lenore A. Grenoble Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages. Nancy C. Dorian. Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition, and Culture 6. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xiv + 476. $162.00 (hardcover). This volume is a collection of twenty-three of Nancy Dorian’s articles, along…
An Ontology of Landscape and Seascape in Greenland
The linguistic encoding of landscape and seascape in Kalaallisut, an Unangan-Yupik-Inuit language spoken on the west coast of Greenland, exists within a complex domain of spatial language, coming together with a coastal-based orientation system and an extensive demonstrative system anchored in the geophysiography of Greenland. In this paper we describe the Kalaallisut landscape lexicon, unpacking its categorization as well as the close relationsh…
Plants in the Sakha Culture
Knowledge and use of plants among the Sakha (orYakut) people are reflected in their naming practices for the plants according to habitat. The Sakha are a Turkic people with a total population of approximately 500,000, living primarily in the vast territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, a region comprising Arctic and Subarctic zones. The Sakha plant lexicon encodes knowledge and cultural information about how the Sa…
Linguistics (20 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · History (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)