Editing Kenneth Lee Pike (section)

==Honors==
Pike was a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], the [[Linguistic Society of America]] (LSA), the [[Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States]] (LACUS), and the [[American Anthropological Association]]. He served as president of LSA and LACUS and later was nominated for the [[Templeton Prize]] three years in a row.<ref name="headland2001">{{cite news|author=Headland, Thomas N.|date=2001|title=Kenneth Lee Pike (1912&ndash;2000)|journal=American Anthropologist|volume=103|issue=2|pages=505–509}}</ref>

When he was named to the Charles Carpenter Fries Professorship of Linguistics at the University of Michigan in 1974, the Dean's citation noted that "his lifelong originality and energetic activity verge on the legendary."<ref>p. xiii. Jankowsky, Kurt R., ed. 1996. ''The Mystery of Culture Contacts, Historical Reconstruction, and Text Analysis: An Emic Approach.'' Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.</ref> Pike was awarded honorary degrees by a number of institutions, including Huntington College, University of Chicago, Georgetown University, L'Université Réné Descartes (Sorbonne), and Albert-Ludwig Universität. Though the Nobel Prize committee did not publicize nominations, in 1983 US Senator [[Alan J. Dixon]] and US Congressman [[Paul Simon (politician)|Paul Simon]] announced that they had nominated Pike for the Nobel Peace Prize. Academic sponsors for his nomination included [[Charles F. Hockett]], [[Sydney Lamb]] (Rice University), Gordon J. van Wylen (Hope College), Frank H. T. Rhodes (Cornell University), [[André Martinet]] (Sorbonne), David C.C. Li (National Taiwan Normal University), and Ming Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong).<ref>p. xiv, xv. Jankowsky, Kurt R., ed. 1996. ''The Mystery of Culture Contacts, Historical Reconstruction, and Text Analysis: An Emic Approach.'' Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.</ref><ref>p. 9-15. Adam Makai, ed., 1984. ''Languages for Peace''. Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press.</ref>