Kenneth Locke Hale (1934-2001) was an American linguist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a wide variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages, especially indigenous languages of North America and Australia, including Navajo, O'odham, Warlpiri, Damin, and Ulwa. Among his major contributions was the hypothesis that certain languages are non-configurational, lacking the phrase structure characteristic of languages such as English.
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RoleAmerican linguist and professor at MIT, specialist in endangered indigenous languages 1 Role
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Documented Navajo grammar early in his career, part of a broader documentation of Native American and Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction.
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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.
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was an American linguist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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.
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