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Ken Hale

Ken Hale

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
13547
World Ranking
4591
National Ranking
2185

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ken Hale was affiliated with MIT in the United States and contributed to multiple fields within the social sciences and humanities. Their work spanned a range of disciplines including social sciences, earth and planetary sciences, and arts and humanities, with a focus on subfields such as anthropology, linguistics and language, paleontology, sociology, political science, and language and linguistics.

Their research covered several main topics, notably Australian Indigenous culture and history, linguistic variation and morphology, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, names, identity, and discrimination research, as well as linguistics and cultural studies.

Ken Hale collaborated frequently with coauthors including Peter Sutton.

  • Peter Sutton

Ken Hale was also an author of book publications with ANU Press, producing works centered on linguistic organization and native title. These included:

  • Linguistic Organisation and Native Title, 2021
  • Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia, 2021

Throughout their career, Ken Hale was recognized by the academic community and was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1994.

Best Publications

  • On Argument Structure and the Lexical Expression of Syntactic Relations

    Ken Hale;Samuel Jay Keyser

  • Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

    Kenneth L. Hale;Samuel Jay Keyser

  • THE STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION OF CASE AND AGREEMENT

    Maria Bittner;Ken Hale

  • Warlpiri and the grammar of non-configurational languages

    Ken Hale

  • The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger

    Kenneth Hale;Samuel Jay Keyser

  • The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice

    Leanne Hinton;Kenneth L. Hale

  • Book Review: The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice

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  • Endangered languages: On endangered languages and the safeguarding of diversity

    Ken Hale

  • DEEP-SURFACE CANONICAL DISPARITIES IN RELATION TO ANALYSIS AND CHANGE: AN AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE

    Kenneth Hale

  • On the syntax of person-number inflection in modern Irish

    James McCloskey;Kenneth Hale

  • A minimalist theory of A-movement and control

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  • Government and tonal phrasing in Papago

    Kenneth Hale;Elisabeth Selkirk

  • Ergativity: toward a theory of a heterogeneous class: toward a theory of a heterogeneous class

    Maria Bittner;Ken Hale

  • Relativized minimality and pronoun incorporation

    Mark Baker;Kenneth Hale

  • 8. Notes on World View and Semantic Categories: some Warlpiri Examples

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  • Language endangerment and the human value of linguistic diversity

    Ken Hale

  • Some transitivity alternations in English

    Ken Hale;Jay Keyser

  • Basic word order in two “free word order” languages

    Kenneth L. Hale

  • Papers in Australian linguistics

    Carl Georg von Brandenstein;Arthur Capell;Kenneth Locke Hale

  • Subject Obviation, Switch Reference, and Control

    Ken Hale

  • Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian Languages

    Kenneth L. Hale

  • Remarks on definiteness in warlpiri

    Maria Bittner;Ken Hale

  • Core structures and adjunctions in Warlpiri syntax

    Kenneth Hale

  • The syntactic character of thematic structure

    Ken Hale;Samuel Jay Keyser

  • Navajo verb stem position and the bipartite structure of the Navajo conjunct sector

    Kenneth L. Hale

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Baker
Mark A. Baker University of Newcastle Australia

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