Hale student fellowship was awarded at the 2017 Linguistic Institute to Ivan Kapitonov of the University of Melbourne. The LSA also has a Kenneth L. Hale Award, which has been presented occasionally since 2002 to those nominated scholars who have made substantial contributions to documenting endangered or extinct languages or family of languages. The award is in honor of Hale's extensive work on preserving endangered languages. Family At the age of 14 Hale met his future wife Sara (known as Sally) Whitaker on his parents' ranch in Canelo, Arizona, and they both attended the Verde Valley School together for a year. They later became reacquainted at the University of Arizona. They had 4 children: Whitaker, Ian (adopted), and the twins Caleb and Ezra. References Further reading "Bibliography of Ken Hale and Australian languages", by David Nash in Jane Simpson, David Nash, et al., eds, Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, Pacific Linguistics 2001. (contains a complete listing of all Ken Hale’s work relating to Australia) Ken Hale Warlpiri Recordings to his sons (1994) Ken Hale tribute (by his colleagues and others at MIT) In Memoriam Ken Hale 1934–2001 (contains CV) External links Morris Halle and Norvin Richards, "Kenneth Locke Hale", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2007) 1934 births 2001 deaths MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty University of Arizona alumni Indiana University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty University of Arizona faculty Linguists from the United States Syntacticians People from Evanston, Illinois Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century linguists People from Santa Cruz County, Arizona Linguists of Algic languages Linguists of Warlpiri Linguistic Society of America presidents Tucson High School alumni