Mark Hale Explained

Mark Hale is an American linguistics professor now teaching at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] He studies the methodology of historical linguistics as well as theoretical linguistics, Indo-European and Austronesian linguistics.

He is a prominent figure in these fields. He has published numerous scholarly articles https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=mark+hale and books https://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=Mark+hale&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&lr=&as_vt=&as_auth=mark+hale&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_isbn=&as_issn= on his research. Along with colleague Charles Reiss, he is a proponent of substance-free phonology, the idea that phonetic substance is inaccessible to phonological computation.

Selected publications

Hale, M. (2007), Historical linguistics: Theory and method, Oxford, Blackwell[2] [3]

Hale, M., & Reiss, C. (2008),The Phonological Enterprise, Oxford: Oxford University Press[4] [5] [6]

Hale, M., Kissock, M., & Reiss, C. (2014) An I-Language Approach to Phonologization and Lexification. Chapter 20. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology.Edited by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons

Hale, M. (1998). Diachronic syntax. Syntax, 1(1), 1-18.

Hale, M.,(2004) Neogrammarian Sound Change, Chapter 7 in The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Edited by: Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, Blackwell

Mark Hale & Charles Reiss (2000) Substance abuse and dysfunctionalism: Current trends in phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 31: 157–169.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mark Hale - Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics. Concordia University. 24 May 2012.
  2. Review of: Hale, M. (2007) Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method, Times Higher Education Supplement, Textbook Guide. Issue of 23 November, 8-9.
  3. Melchert, H. Craig (2009) (Review of) Historical linguistics: Theory and method. By Mark Hale. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Language, Volume 85, Number 1, March,
  4. Web site: Archived copy . 2012-06-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320034829/http://www.hum.uit.no/a/kraemer/HnRLingua.pdf . 2012-03-20 . Kramer, M., Book review. J. Lingua (2009), (Accessed Sep. 2011)
  5. de Lacy, Paul (2009) Mark Hale & Charles Reiss, The phonological enterprise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+292.Journal of Linguistics, 45: 719-724
  6. Kim, Yuni (2011) Review of M. Hale & C. Reiss (2008), The Phonological Enterprise. Phonology 28(2): 283-289.