title: Kenneth L. Hale Award
text: # 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
  