Kenneth L. Hale

American linguist (1934–2001)

Kenneth Locke Hale (August 15, 1934 – October 8, 2001) was an American linguist and professor 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, Damin, and Ulwa. 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.

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