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Indigenous Languages & Peoples in the Siberian Arctic

Lenore Grenoble, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division, the University of Chicago

Monday, February 4, 2019
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Indigenous Languages & Peoples in the Siberian Arctic: Vitality, Well-being and Urbanization

Lenore Grenoble, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division, the University of Chicago

Monday Feb. 4  |  4:30-5:30pm  |  041 Haldeman Center, free and open to all. 
Reception to follow.

Lenore Grenoble specializes in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages, and is currently conducting fieldwork on Even and Evenki (Tungusic) in Siberia and Kalaallisut (Greenlandic, Inuit) in Greenland.  Her research focuses on the study of contact linguistics and language shift, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, and issues in the study of language endangerment, attrition, and revitalization.

Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

 

For more information, contact:
Sharon Tribou-St. Martin
sharon.m.tribou-st.martin@dartmouth.edu
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