Daniel Everett
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| Native name | Daniel Leonard Everett |
| Born | July 26, 1951 Holtville, California, United States |
| Awards | Many National Science Foundation grants; FIPA; Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival |
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| Alma mater | University of Campinas |
| Influences | Noam Chomsky, Edward Sapir, Kenneth L. Pike, Franz Boas, William James, John Searle, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Harris |
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| Main interests | Linguistics, anthropology, tacit cognition |
| Notable works | Don't Sleep, There are Snakes; Language: The Cultural Tool; Grammar of the Wari' Language; Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide (with Jeanette Sakel) |
| Notable ideas | Grammars can be shaped by cultures; there are finite grammars in nonfinite languages |
| Influenced | Iris Berent, Ted Gibson, Caleb Everett |
Daniel Leonard Everett (born 1951) is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their language.
As of July 1, 2010 he serves as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Prior to Bentley University, Everett was Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He has taught at the University of Manchester and is former Chair of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pittsburgh. He is married to Linda Ann Everett.
In 2016 Tom Wolfe published a book, The Kingdom of Speech, in which he discusses work of four major figures in the history of the sciences of evolution and language, the last of them being Daniel Everett. Everett is also currently working on two books: Dark Matter of the Mind: the Culturally Articulated Unconscious, for University of Chicago Press and due in 2016, and How Language Began, under contract with Liveright Publishers, to appear in 2017.
Everett was raised near the Mexican border. His father was an occasional cowboy, mechanic, and construction worker. His mother was a waitress at a local restaurant in Holtville. Everett played in rock bands from the time he was 11 years old until converting to Christianity at age 17, after meeting missionaries Al and Sue Graham in San Diego, California.
At age 18 Everett married the daughter of these missionaries, Keren. He completed a diploma in Foreign Missions from the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago in 1975. Daniel and Keren Everett subsequently enrolled in the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International), which trains missionaries in field linguistics so that they can translate the Bible into various world languages.
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