The late MIT professor Ken Hale's pioneering work is widely known and respected in linguistics. His scholarly output was substantial and of the highest quality, developing and influencing syntactic theory, and, through his examination of under-documented languages, expanding the range of linguistic data for which theories must account.
Prof. Hale's work as a teacher included mentoring native speakers of underrepresented languages who subsequently made significant contributions to linguistic study of their own languages. This workshop presents current scholarship by linguists who are native speakers of indigenous North American languages.