Colette Grinevald

Colette Grinevald (born 1947) is a French linguist. She is professor emeritus at the University of Lyon.^[1]

Colette Grinevald
Born	1947 (age 77–78)
Other names	Colette Grinevald Craig
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Jacaltec Syntax: A Study of Complex Sentences (1975)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Language documentation Language preservation Indigenous languages of the Americas
Institutions	University of Oregon Lumière University Lyon 2 CNRS
Website	www.colettegrinevald.fr

Career

Grinevald earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1975 and joined the newly created Linguistics department at the University of Oregon in 1977.^[2] Grinevald has written grammars of Jakaltek Popti' and Rama and advocates for endangered languages.^[3] She contributed to UNESCO's language vitality criteria developed in 2003.^[4] Grinevald serves on Sorosoro's scientific board.^[5]

Life

Grinevald grew up in Algiers, in what was then French Algeria. She had recurrent tuberculosis as a young child. She married William Craig, then a medical student, while studying in Boston. The couple later divorced. Grinevald's children Matthias Craig and Guillaume Craig started a non-profit organization, Blue Energy.^[2][6]

Publications

• Jacaltec : The Structure of Jacaltec by Colette Grinevald Craig 1977, Austin : University of Texas Press