The Kenneth L. Hale Award, named after
linguist Kenneth L. Hale
Kenneth Locke Hale (August 15, 1934 – October 8, 2001), also known as Ken Hale, was an American linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially ...
, is an award given to a member of the
Linguistic Society of America in order to recognize "scholars who have done outstanding work on the documentation of a particular
language or
family of languages that is
endangered or
no longer spoken."
It has been described as one "response to the urgency of recording endangered languages before they disappear."
Recipients
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Kathleen Bragdon (2002):
Massachusett
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Ives Goddard (2002):
Massachusett
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Robert W. Young
Robert W. Young (May 18, 1912 – February 20, 2007), professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, was an American linguist known for his work on the Navajo language. From the late 1930s, Young cooperated with the Navajo ...
(2006):
Navajo
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...
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Nicholas Evans (2011):
Aboriginal languages:
Mayali,
Kunwinjku and Kune,
Kayardild,
Dalabon
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Nancy Dorian (2012):
Scots Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...
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Claire Bowern (2014):
Bardi
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Anvita Abbi
Professor Anvita Abbi (born 9 January 1949) is an Indian linguist and scholar of minority languages, known for her studies on tribal languages and other minority languages of South Asia. In 2013, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth ...
(2015):
Great Andamanese[Kenneth L. Hale Award Previous Holders]
, ''LinguisticSociety.org''. Accessed: 23 July 2019.
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Melissa Axelrod
Melissa is a female given name. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey".
''Melissa'' also refers to the plant ''Me ...
(2017):
Koyukon,
Dene,
Tanoan, and
Ixil
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Nora England
Nora Clearman England (November 8, 1946 – January 26, 2022) was an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focused on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary ...
(2016):
Mam
Mam or MAM may refer to:
Places
* An Mám or Maum, a settlement in Ireland
* General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (IATA Code: MAM)
* Isle of Mam, a phantom island
* Mam Tor, a hill near Castleton in t ...
and
Mayan
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Tucker Childs (2018):
Bolom group,
Kisi,
Bom,
Mani,
Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese ...
, and
Sherbro
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Judith Aissen
Judith Lillian Aissen (born 4 June 1948) is an American professor emerita in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Career
Aissen began to study Mayan languages in 1972 as a graduate student at Harvard University, conducting ...
(2019):
Mayan languages
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Patience Epps (2020):
Naduhup languages
See also
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Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award The Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award is an award named after linguist Victoria Fromkin that is given to a member of the Linguistic Society of America who has performed "extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society" throughout ...
References
External links
Kenneth L. Hale Award(
Linguistic Society of America)
American awards
Linguistic Society of America
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