Kenneth L. Hale
American linguist (1934–2001) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 indigenous languages of North America and Australia. Languages investigated by Hale include Navajo, O'odham, Warlpiri, and Ulwa.
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Born | (1934-08-15)August 15, 1934 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | October 8, 2001(2001-10-08) (aged 67) Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Thesis | A Papago Grammar (1959) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles F. Voegelin |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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Doctoral students | Andrew Carnie, LaVerne Jeanne, David Nash, Paul Platero, Rudolf de Rijk, Tova Rapoport, Peggy Speas, Richard Sproat |
Website | linguistics.mit.edu/hale |
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Among his major contributions to linguistic theory was the hypothesis that certain languages were non-configurational, lacking the phrase structure characteristic of such languages as English.