October 19, 2022
Congratulations to Andrew Garrett, who has been awarded the 2023 Ken Hale Award from the Linguistic Society of America! Here is the official announcement from the LSA:
The LSA Awards Committee is pleased to announce Andrew Garrett as the 2023 Ken Hale Award Recipient. Through his linguistic and community work documenting languages of Northern California, principally Yurok and Karuk, Andrew Garrett admirably encapsulates the different commitments and achievements of the great Ken Hale. A leading scholar originally trained in historical linguistics and Indo-European, whose honors include the 2015 Best Paper in Language Award (with three co-authors), Garrett has produced work on a wide range of linguistic, historical, and cultural issues as well as producing new studies and web-based lexical and grammatical tools useful to language specialists and linguists in general and to the Yurok and Karuk communities. Most recently he is the author of The unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, memory, and Indigenous California (MIT Press, to appear in 2023).
The awards ceremony will take place during the annual meeting of the LSA in Denver on January 7, 2023.