Professor Jeffrey Heath was recently awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award from the Linguistic Society of America. First presented in 2002, this annual award recognizes scholars for outstanding work in documentation of languages that are endangered or no longer spoken. Dr. Heath’s career-long commitment to language documentation has resulted in the creation of more than 30 grammars of severely endangered and underdocumented languages across four continents, including Australian Aboriginal Languages, Berber, Basque, varieties of Arabic, and the Songhay, Dogon, and Mande languages of West-Africa. He was recognized for this honor at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the LSA in New Orleans, Louisiana, from January 8–11, 2026.
