Kenneth L. Hale Award

The Kenneth L. Hale Award, named after linguist Kenneth L. Hale, 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."[1] It has been described as one "response to the urgency of recording endangered languages before they disappear."[2]

  1. ^ "LSA Honors and Awards". LinguisticSociety.org. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  2. ^ Thomason, Sarah G. (2015). Endangered Languages: An Introduction, p.14. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316298008. Cites: "The Need for the Documentation of Linguistic Diversity", policy statement, LinguisticSociety.org. Accessed: 23 July 2019.