Kenneth L. Hale Award
# 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." It has been described as one "response to the urgency of recording endangered languages before they disappear."

## Recipients

* Kathleen Bragdon (2002): Massachusett
* Ives Goddard (2002): Massachusett
* Robert W. Young (2006): Navajo
* Nicholas Evans (2011): Aboriginal languages: Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune, Kayardild, Dalabon
* Nancy Dorian (2012): Scots Gaelic
* Claire Bowern (2014): Bardi
* Anvita Abbi (2015): Great Andamanese
* Melissa Axelrod (2017): Koyukon, Dene, Tanoan, and Ixil
* Nora England (2016): Mam and Mayan
* Tucker Childs (2018): Bolom group, Kisi, Bom, Mani, Kim, and Sherbro
* Judith Aissen (2019): Mayan languages
* Patience Epps (2020): Naduhup languages
