This page collects many of Ken Hale’s papers as well as some of his unpublished teaching materials that were preserved by his students. The collection includes some papers that are well-known but not very accessible, as well as others that will be new to most readers — along with hectographed handouts from the 1970s and marvels of early word processing that should bring a smile of reminiscence to students and colleagues who were lucky enough to attend Ken’s classes or public lectures.
We are making these materials available so that the work that went into these papers and handouts will not be lost to the communities of linguists and speakers that Ken’s work so enriched. These papers do not merely document a wonderful man, a great career and a stunningly productive era in the history of linguistics. They also contain ideas, discoveries and puzzles that Ken himself did not develop further that still have the power to excite — to advance the study of human language and languages, and the intellectual wealth that they embody for their speakers.
We are grateful to Ken’s children Ezra and Caleb for their permission to organize this site, as well as to Ken’s co-authors represented here. We are eager to add to this collection. If you have additional materials to contribute, please contact kenhalepapers@mit.edu.
Notes on world view and semantic categories: some Warlpiri examples. Hale, Kenneth. 1986. In Features and Projections, ed. by Peter Muysken and Henk van Riemsdijk, 233-254. Studies in Generative Grammar, 25. Dordrecht: Foris.
A Linngithigh Vocabulary, Ken Hale, Boundary rider: essays in honour of Geoffrey O’Grady (Darrel Tryon and Michael Walsh, eds), 209-246. Pacific Linguistics, C-136 (1997)
A Note on a Warlpiri Tradition of Antonymy. In D. Steinberg and L. A. Jakobovits, eds., Semantics, pp. 472-482. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1971)
A Note on the Pittapitta Nominative Case and the Future Tense, Ken Hale, manuscript (1999)
A Response to Fodor and Lepore, “Impossible Words?”, Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser, Linguistic Inquiry, vol. 30, num. 3, 453-466 (Summer 1999)
Aboriginal Semantic Traditions in Australia, Ken Hale, handout (1979)
Adjectives, Other Stative Predicates, And The Roots Of Stativity, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, (not dated)
Agreement and Incorporation in Athabaskan and In General, Ken Hale, manuscript (1987)
Agreement and Spurious Antipassives, Ken Hale and Luciana Storto, manuscript (1995)
Agreement and Spurious Antipassives, Ken Hale and Luciana Storto, manuscript (not dated)
Argument Obviation and Switch-Reference in Hopi, LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne and Ken Hale, manuscript (1985)
Aspects of Navajo Verb Morphology and Syntax: The Inchoative, Ken Hale, Pamela Munro, and Paul Platero, (not dated)
Book Review: Politicas Linguisticas en Mexico, Ken Hale (1999)
Bound Features, Merge, And Transitivity Alternations, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser (not dated)
Classification of Northern Paman Languages, Cape York Peninsula, Australia: A Research Report, Ken Hale, Oceanic Linguistics Vol III, Number 2 (1964)
Comparative notes on ergative case systems, Maria Bittner and Ken Hale, In: MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages, Vol. 2: Papers on Australian Languages (R. Pensalfinin & N. Richards, eds.), pp. 67–104, (2000)
Conflicting Truths, Ken Hale (not dated)
Core Structures and Adjunctions in Warlpiri Syntax (Draft), Ken Hale, Scrambling Conference, Tilburg, October 1990
Correction Of Error, R. M. W. Dixon, Linguistics Typology 8, 145-147 (2004)
Eccentric Agreement, Ken Hale, (not dated)
El Causativo Misumalpa (miskitu, sumu), Ken Hale, ASJU, XXX-2, 703-712 (1996)
Entrevista Diversidade E Universalidade Linguistica, Ken Hale, MANA 6(2), 147-162 (2000)
Ergativity, Ken Hale, 24.956 handout, (Spring 1999)
Explaining and Constraining the English Middle, Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser, Lexicon Project Working Papers 24: Studies in Generative Approaches to Aspect (1988)
Forty years on Ken Hale and Australian languages, edited by Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher, Published by Pacific Linguistics, (25 May 2001)
Gaps In Grammar And Culture, Ken Hale, Linguistcs and Anthropology, 295-315 (1975)
Hopi Subject Obviation Constructions, Ken Hale, handout (October 1988)
Incorporation and the Irish Synthetic Verb Forms, Ken Hale, manuscript (mid 1980’s)
Insubordinate Complements in Miskito, Alejandro Aviles, Kenneth Hale, and Danilo Salamanca, manuscript (undated)
new Interview with Ken Hale at MIT, May 15, 1989, by Hannu Reime (Finnish Radio)
L’Antipassif de Focalisation du K’ichee’ et L’envers du Chukchi: Une Etude de L’accord Excentrique, Ken Hale, (not dated)
Language Typology, Ken Hale, 24.945 handout, (1979)
Linguistic Aspects of Language Teaching and Learning in Immersion Contexts, Ken Hale, The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice, Academic Press (2001)
Linguistic Evidence for Long-Term Residence of the Wik-Speaking Peoples in Their Present Location in Cape York Australia, Ken Hale, (not dated)
Linguistic Evidence for Long-Term Residence of the Wik-Speaking Peoples in Their Present Location in Cape York Peninsula: Part II, Morphosyntax, Ken Hale, (not dated)
Miskitu Causative Constructions, Ken Hale, Problem #3 for 24.915 (1990)
Misumalpan Language Projects, Ken Hale, handout (1999)
Misumalpan Language Projects Part II, Ken Hale, handout (1999)
Misumalpan Verb Sequencing Constructions, Ken Hale, handout (October 1988)
Misumalpan Verb Sequencing Constructions, Ken Hale, manuscript (1988)
Navaho Verb Stem Position and the Bipartite Structure of the Navajo Conjunct Sector, Ken Hale, Linguistic Inquiry Vol. 32 No. 4, 678-693 (Fall 2001)
Negative Polarity Expressions In Navajo, Ken Hale and Paul Platero, (not dated)
Noam Chomsky’s Birthday Party Reel, Ken Hale, (not dated)
O’odham Fronting, Ken Hale (June 27th, 2001)
Obviation in Modern Irish, Ken Hale (September 1978)
On Some Syntactic Rules in the Lexicon, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, handout (1990)
On Some Syntactic Rules in the Lexicon, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, manuscript (Draft) (1990)
On the Dagur Object Relative: Some comparative Notes, Ken Hall, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 11, 109-122 (2002)
On the Position of Walbiri in a Typology of the Base, Ken Hale, manuscript (early 1980’s)
Papago (k)c, Ken Hale, IJAL vol. 49, no. 3, 299-327 (July 1983)
Parts of Speech, Ken Hale and Paul Platero, unfinished manuscript (1978)
Particles, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, manuscript (2000)
Person Marking in Walbiri, Ken Hale, A Festschrift for Morris Halle, Stephen R. Anderson and Paul Kparsky, editors; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; 308-344 (1973)
Preliminary Remarks on Configurationality, Ken Hale, manuscript (1982)
Preliminary Remarks on the Grammar of Part-Whole Relations in Warlpiri, Ken Hale, (not dated)
Preliminary Remarks on the Grammar of Part-Whole Relations in Warlpiri (MANUSCRIPT), Ken Hale, (not dated)
Preliminary Remarks on the Grammar of Part-Whole Relations in Warlpiri. In J. Hollyman and A. Pawley, eds., Studies in Pacific Languages and Cultures in Honor of Bruce Biggs, pp. 333-344. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand (1981)
Preliminary Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics O’odham (Papago) Particles, Ken Hale, SULA Conference, University of Massachusetts, (April 20-22, 2001)
Problem Set on Selection (data from Navajo; 24.951), Ken Hale, (1995)
Relative Clauses in Modern Irish, Ken Hale, handout based on McCloskey, James, Transformational Syntax and Model Theoretic Semantics: A Case Study in Modern Irish, U. of Texas ms., (1978)
Remarks on definiteness in Warlpiri, Maria Bittner and Ken Hale, In: Quantification in Natural Languages (Emmon Bach, et al., eds.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 81–106 (1995)
Remarks on Lexicography in Relation to Uto-Aztecan Ethnolinguistic Research, Ken Hale, (not dated)
Remarks on the Syntax of the Navaho Verb Part I: Preliminary Observations on the Structure of the Verb, Ken Hale, Navaho Language Academy Linguistics Workshop NCC, Tsail, AZ (July-August 1987)
Remembering Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001), Various Authors, Linguistic Typology 6, 137-153 (2002)
Resisting Language Loss: The Human Value of Local Languages, Ken Hale, manuscript (1992)
Some Essential Features of Warlpiri Verbal Clauses, Ken Hale, Working Papers of SIL-AAB Series A Volume 6, (June 1982)
Some Observations on the Contributions of Local Languages to Linguistic Science, Ken Hale, Linguia 100, 71-89 (1997)
Some Pre-Theoretic Remarks on Walbiri Verbs, Ken Hale, (1978)
Some Relative Clause Types I, Ken Hale, handout (1978)
Some Relative Clause Types II, Ken Hale, handout (1978)
Some Relative Clause Types III, Ken Hale, handout (1978)
Some Relative Clause Types IV, Ken Hale, handout (1978)
Some Remarks on Agreement and Incorporation, Ken Hale, (1990)
Strict Locality in Local Language Media: An Australian Example, Ken Hale (2001)
Subject Obviation, Switch Reference, and Control, Ken Hale, (March 1989)
Subject Obviation, Switch Reference, and Control, Ken Hale, (May 1992)
The Adjoined Relative Clause in Australia, Kenneth Hale, in R. M. W. Dixon (ed.), Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (1976)
The Basic Elements of Argument Structure, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, (not dated)
The Causative Construction in Miskitu, Ken Hale, (not dated)
The Misumalpan Causative Construction, Ken Hale, (not dated)
The Misumalpan Causative Construction (Offprint), Ken Hale, Essays on Language Function and Language Type (Dedicated to T. Givon), edited by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, and Sandra A. Thompson, (not dated)
The Passive and Ergative in Language Change: The Australian case . In S.A. Wurm and D.C. Laycock, eds., Pacific Linguistic Studies in Honour of Arthur Capell, pp. 751-781. Canberra: The Australian National University (1970)
The Phonological Aspect of the Navajo Conjunct Verb System, Ken Hale, (not dated)
The structural determination of case and agreement, Maria Bittner and Ken Hale, Linguistic Inquiry 27:1–68, (1996)
The Structure of English Sentences, Ken Hale (1978)
The Syntax of the Navajo Verb, Ken Hale, handout (not dated)
Theoretical And Universal Implications Of Certain Verbal Entries In Dictionaries Of The Misumalpan Languages, Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca, (not dated)
There-Insertion Unaccusatives, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, (not dated)
There-Insertion Unaccusatives and Other Complex Instransitives, Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, (not dated)
Three Cases Of Overgeneration, Ken Hale, LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne, Paul Platero, Formal Syntax (1978)
Tohono O’odham Nonverbal Predicates, Ken Hale and Ofelia Zepeda, handout (not dated)
Ergativity: Toward a theory of a heterogeneous class, Maria Bittner and Ken Hale, Linguistic Inquiry 27:531–604, (1996)
Transitivization in Hopi, LaVerne Jeanne and Ken Hale, (not dated)
Ulwa (Southern Sumu): The Beginnings of a Language Research Project, Ken Hale, (not dated)
Ulwa, the language of Karawala, eastern Nicaragua: its position and prospects in modern Nicaragua, Thomas Green and Kenneth Hale, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 132, 185-201 (1998)
Universal Grammar and the Necessity of Linguistic Diversity, Ken Hale, (1994)
Warlpiri and the Grammar of Non-Configurational Languages, Ken Hale, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1, 5-47 (1983)
Wik Reflections of Middle Paman Phonology, Ken Hale (1976)