Ken Hale

The SSILA established the *Ken Hale Prize* to recognize outstanding work and commitment to the documentation and preservation of indigenous languages. See Newsletter XXI:1(April 2002),1-2.

Linguistics Society of America Kenneth L. Hale Book Award. First presented in 2002, the award recognizes outstanding linguistic scholarship that documents a particular endangered or no longer spoken language or language family. Linguistic Society of America Bulletin No. 174, December 2001. See also SSILA Newsletter XXI:2 (July 2002),3-4.

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American Anthropologist, 105.1 (March 2003), pages 222-225, 'Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001)' by Aram Yengoyan * AA Abstract: A profile of Kenneth L. Hale, who passed away Oct. 8, 2001, is presented. A master of verbal skills with an amazing ability to learn multiple new languages, Hale also possessed uncanny insight into the deepest structural significances of these languages. He was a linguist with a mission.

Wani: Revista del Caribe Nicaragüense número 27 (Julio-Diciembre 2001), 28-30. El Legado del Dr. Kenneth Hale, by Alvaro Rivas * a publication of CIDCA (Centro de Documentación de la Costa Atlántica) * https://revistasnicaragua.net.ni/index.php/wani/article/view/1412 online from 2014

An Teanga Bheo / Irish Times, 21 November 2001, 'An Peann Coitianta: Tionscnamh teangacha', by Liam î Muirthile

Australian Aboriginal Studies 2001/2,84-86, 'Kenneth Locke Hale. Linguist, language rights activist, specialist on indigenous languages especially Native American and Australian. 1934-2001', by David Nash

Australian 'Time and Tide', 4 December 2001, page 12, 'American's work spoke to Warlpiri', by David Nash

Mention in Alistair Cooke's 'Letter From America', Monday, 3 December 2001; BBC and rebroadcast worldwide from 2 December 2001

Guardian, 10 November 2001 'The master of more than 50 languages, he fought to protect vanishing native traditions', by SJ Keyser
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Toronto Star, 4 November 2001, 'Farewell to a man of many tongues', by Jay Ingram

Boston Herald, 2 November 2001, 'Obituary; Kenneth Hale, 67, MIT linguistics professor'

Cape Cod Times, 25 October 2001, from Los Angeles Times, augmented by CCT writer Sean Gonsalves >> text

Los Angeles Times, 24 October 2001, 'Kenneth Hale, 67; Legendary Linguist', by Elaine Woo * reprinted as 'Linguist Kenneth Hale, 67; Knew 50 Tongues', The Washington Post, 28 October 2001

New York Times, 19 October 2001, page C13, 'Kenneth L. Hale, 67, Preserver of Nearly Extinct Languages. A natural linguist who strove to keep unwritten speech from disappearing', by Wolfgang Saxon * reprinted in: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 October 2001; The Globe and Mail, 29 October 2001

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Wani: Revista del Caribe Nicaragüense número 38 (Julio-Sept. 2004) * a publication of CIDCA (Centro de Documentación de la Costa Atlántica) * 'Homenaje a Keneth Hale' * includes 'Sumos, mayagnas, tuahka, panamahka, ulwa? Lengua e identidad étnica' by Keneth Hale y Elena Benedicto, pp.6-24 * 'El grupo "Lingüistas por Nicarangua" Entrevista al Dr. Keneth Hale' Alvaro Rivas Gómez, pp.25-33 https://revistasnicaragua.net.ni/index.php/wani/article/view/1500/1447

Making dictionaries. Preserving Indigenous languages of the Americas. Edited by William Frawley, Kenneth Hill, and Pamela Munro. University of California Press, 2002. Reviewed by Frances Karttunen, International Journal of Lexicography 17.1(2004),91-92. "Dedicated to the memory of Ken Hale, a linguist universally esteemed by his colleagues"

Introduction to John Henderson & David Nash, eds. 2002. Language in Native Title. Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press.

Bert Vaux & Justin Cooper. Linguistic field methods. 2005 Draft. "We would like to dedicate this book to the memory of Ken Hale, an inspiring theoretical and field linguist, and (unknown to many) a great armenologist and abkhazologist." (p.4)

Richard K. Larsen. Grammar as science. 2010. MIT Press. Dedication and portrait (Photo by Sabine Iatridou). (p.[v])

Nonconfigurationality: special session in memory of Ken Hale (chair: N. Richards). Friday November 8, 2002, NELS 33, 2002

Editorial Notes. 'Hale, Wurm, and Mezzofanti', SSILA Newsletter XX:4,2-4, by Victor Golla.

A short memorial was held at the SSILA Business Meeting SSILA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, 4 January 2002.

First international meeting of the Brazilian Working Group on Indigenous Languages (GTLI), Federal University of Pará, 12 October 2001. "Attendees were especially saddened by the news of the death of Ken Hale, who had been invited to deliver a keynote address."SSILA Newsletter XXI:3(October 2002),10-11, and Bulletin No. 174; see also Ogmios Newsletter 2.6 (#18) : Winter — 31 January 2002.

VII Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste: in memoriam Kenneth L. Hale (Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, 13-15 November, 2002)

Resist established a special Ken Hale Tribute Grant for support of Native American groups that request Resist funding.

A memorial service was held at the Wong Auditorium of the Tang Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at 2:00pm on Thursday, November 1, 2001. MIT's Academic Media Production Services made a video recording.

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