Dan Everett

  • Professor, Sociology
  • Honorary Research Professor of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, England
  • Dean
  • Mestrado em Linguistica Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
  • Doutorado em Ciencias em Linguistica (Sc.D.) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
  • Diploma in Foreign Missions Moody Bible Institute

Teaching Interests

Everett's teaching interests have historically been phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, linguistics field research, and anthropology. Currently teaches on the evolution of human behavior, cultures of business, Native Americans, and cross-cultural communication.

Research Interests

His research spans a wide range of topics such as anthropology, cognitive sciences, the nature of language, language evolution, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind.

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Laboratory Phonology 2013-01-01 - Present
  • International Organization for Cross-Cultural Psychology 2013-01-01 - Present
  • Linguistic Society of America 2005-01-01 - 2006-12-31
  • Awards and Honors

  • Mee Family Research Prize, Mee Family Foundation/Bentley University
  • Kawaja Family Foundation, Kawaja Family
  • Lonner Lecture, International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology
  • Founding co-Editor in Chief of Open Linguistics, De Gruyter Open
  • Holtville High School Hall of Fame, Holtville High School, Holtville, CA
  • 20th Anniversary Issue dedicated to Everett's book, Language: The Cultural Tool., Journal Pragmatics and Cognition
  • Best World Science Documentary Award and the Student Jury Award (for Grammar of Happiness, documentary about Everett's life and work), § Academia Film Olomouc International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Czech Republic.
  • Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes selected as required reading for all freshmen; same book was subject of Annual Belmont Conference., Belmont University, Nashville, TN
  • Gold Panda Award for Best Long Documentary (for Grammar of Happiness, film about Everett's life and work)., Sichuan TV Festival (China)
  • Grand Prix, Tree of Knowledge Award (for Grammar of Happiness), The World of Knowledge Science Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia
  • One of Four Inaugural Winners, Annual Meeting Opening Film, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • ACS Gold and the 2012 Judges Award for Best Cinematography (for Grammar of Happiness), Australian Cinematographers Society Awards
  • Best Human and Social Science film 2012 (for Grammar of Happiness, documentary about Everett's life and work)., Jackson Hole Science Media Awards
  • Grand River Forum (three-day conference dedicated to Everett's book, Don't Sleep, There are Snakes. All incoming freshmen required to read Don't Sleep), Wilfrid Laurier College, Toronto
  • Top 15 Scientific Insights 2011, Forbes Magazine
  • Young European Jury Prize 2012 (for Grammar of Happiness)., FIPA International Festival of Audio Visual Programs, FRANCE.
  • Tel Aviv University Conference (on Everett's book, Language: The Cultural Tool)., Cohn Institute and the Department of Philosophy
  • Top 100 Science Stories, 2009, Discover Magazine
  • Best Books of 2009, for Everett's Don't Sleep, There are Snakes, National Public Radio (US)
  • Finalist, Best Book 2009 (for Everett's Don't Sleep, There are Snakes), Society of Midland Authors
  • Inaugural University Professor, Illinois State University
  • Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Research Professorship, University of Manchester, UK
  • Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science
  • Visiting Scholar, Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Delta Epsilon Chi, Delta Epsilon Chi, National Honor Society for Christian Colleges
  • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles


  • Everett, D. (2024). "Religion is of reduced importance when not needed to solve the problems of social living.". Journal of the Cognitive Science of Religion 10:01 10. (Link)
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Paleolithic. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 28, pages 535–579 44. (Link)
  • Everett, D. (2020). O Papel da Cultura na Língua e na Cognição. Brazilian Linguistics Association 29.
  • , ., Everett, D. (2020). Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Paleolithic. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 45.
  • Everett, D. (2019). Review of Recursion Across Domains. Language, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of America Volume 95, Number 4 777-790. (Link)
  • Everett, D. L., , E., , . (2019). Review of Recursion Across Domains. Language: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, (Volume 95) 4 777-790. (Link)
  • Everett, D. L. (2018). The Role of Culture in Language and Cognition. Wiley Volume 12, issue 11 34. (Link)
  • Futrell, R., Stearns, L., Piantadosi, S. T., Gibson, E. (2016). A Corpus Investigation of Syntactic Embedding in Piraha. PLOS One
  • Everett, D. (2016). An Evaluation of Universal Grammar and the Phonological Mind. Frontiers In Psychology
  • Everett, D. (2015). On resilience, homesigns and nativism: a response to Goldin-Meadow. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30 919-921.
  • Everett, D. (2015). Geo-Identity. Travel Plus Magazine
  • Everett, D. (2014). Cultural Differences in Perceptual Reorganization in US and Piraha Adults. PLOS One
  • Everett, D. (2014). "One World, many visions'. Review of "Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian people" by Michael F. Brown. New Scientist Magazine
  • Everett, D. (2013). The State of Whose Art? Reply to Nick Enfield's review of Language: The Cultural Tool. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  • Everett, D. (2013). A Noble Scientist - Review of 'Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - The Yanamamo and the Anthropologists. New Scientist Magazine
  • Everett, D. (2012). What does Piraha Have to Teach Us About Human Language and the Mind?. WIREs Cognitive Science
  • Everett, D. (2012). The story of language: culture not nature. New Scientist 32-35.
  • Everett, D. (2011). Furchtet euch nicht!. Kultur Austausch, (11) 111 64-65.
  • Everett, D. (2009). Pirahã Culture and Grammar: A Response to Some Criticisms. Language, (Volume 85) Number 2 405-442.
  • Frank, M., Everett, D., Fedorenko, E., Gibson, E. (2008). Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition. Cognition, (108) 3 819-824.
  • Everett, D. (2007). Challenging Chomskyan Linguistics: The Case of Piraha. Human Development, (50) 6 297-299.
  • Everett, D. (2006). Responding to Bambini, Valentina, Claudio Gentili, and Pietro Pietrini 'Discussion On Cultural Constraints on Pirahã Grammar'. Current Anthropology, (47) 1 143-145.
  • Everett, D. (2005). Biology and Language: a Consideration of Alternatives. Journal of Linguistics, (41) 157-175.
  • Everett, D. (2005). Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã. Current Anthropology, (46) 4 621-646.
  • Everett, D. (2005). Periphrastic Pronouns in Wari. , (71) 3 303-326.
  • Everett, D. (2003). Iambic Feet in Paumari and the Theory of Foot Structure. Linguistic Discovery, (2) 1 22-44.
  • Everett, D. (2002). Recollections of Kenneth L. Hale. Linguistic Typology, (6) 2
  • Everett, D. (2001). Do Phonological Representations Specify Variables? Evidence from the Obligatory Contour Princip.e. Cognitive Psychology 42 Jan-60.
  • Everett, D. (2001). Review of Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. & Randy J. LaPolla's "Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function", 1997. Journal of Linguistics
  • Everett, D. (1999). A Formacao de Palavras na Sintaxe em Wari'. Margarida Basilio
  • Everett, D., Ladefoged, P., Ladefoged, J. (1997). Phonetic Structures of Banawa, an Endangered Language. Phonetica 54 94-111.
  • Everett, D., Ladefoged, P. (1996). The Status of Phonetic Rarities. Language, (72) 3
  • Everett, D. (1994). The Sentential Divide in Language and Cognition: Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility and Related Issues. The Journal of Pragmatics and Cognition, (2) 1 131-166.
  • Everett, D. (1994). Restricoes de Bloqueamento e a Teoria da Otimalidade. The Journal of the Brazilian Linguistics Society, (10) 2
  • Everett, D. (1993). Sapir, Reichenbach, and the Syntax of Tense in Piraha. The Journal of Pragmatics and Cognition, (1) 1 89-124.
  • Everett, D., Buller, B., Buller, E. (1993). Stress Placement, Syllable Structure and Minimality in Banawa. The International Journal of American Linguistics, (59) 3 280-293.
  • Everett, D. (1992). Formal Linguistics and Field Work. Cadernos do Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
  • Everett, D. (1991). 'Mental representations: The interface between language and reality' edited by Ruth M. Kempson. Language 67
  • Everett, D. (1989). Anaphoric Indices and Inalienable Possession in Brazilian Portuguese. Linguistic Inquiry, (20) 3 491-497.
  • Everett, D. (1989). Clitic Doubling, Reflexives, and Word Order Alternations in Yagua. Language, (65) 2 339-372.
  • Everett, D. (1988). On Metrical Constituent Structure in Piraha Phonology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 5 207-246.
  • Everett, D. (1987). Piraha Clitic Doubling. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 5 245-276.
  • Everett, D., Seki, L. (1986). Deletion, Reduplication and CV Skeleta in Kamaiura. Notes on Linguistics 33 48-52.
  • Everett, D., Seki, L. (1985). Reduplication and CV Skeleta in Kamairua. Linguistic Inquiry 16 326-330.
  • Everett, D., Everett, K. (1984). On the relevance of Syllable Onsets to Stress Placement. Linguistic Inquiry 15 705-711.
  • Everett, D. (1983). A Gramatica dos Genes. Ciencia Ilustrada
  • Everett, D. (1982). Phonetic Rarities in Piraha. Journal of the International Phonetics Association 94-96.
  • Everett, D. (1982). Some Remarks on Minimal Pairs. Notes on Linguistics, (22) 24-30.
  • Everett, D. Religion is of reduced importance when not needed to solve the problems of social living.". Advances in the Cognitive Science of Religion
  • Books


  • Everett, D. L. (2024). Introdu√ß√£o √† Filosofia do Charles Sanders Peirce 400. University of Pernambuco Press
  • Everett, D. L. (2024). N√£o Durma, H√° Cobras: Vida e Linguagem Na Amaz√¥nia 375. Editora Vozes
  • Everett, D. (2024). From Fieldwork to Linguistic Theory: A Tribute to Dan Everett 435. Language Sciences Press (Link)
  • Everett, D. L. (2022). Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes (Chinese)
  • Everett, D. L. (2022). Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes (Ukrainian) 400.
  • Everett, D. L. (2022). How Language Began (Chinese translation)
  • Everett, D. L. (2022). Language: The Cultural Tool 400. Riga, Latvia: University of Riga
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). Don't Sleep There Are Snakes (Italian Translation) 400. Italy: Fabbrica dei Segni
  • Everett, D. (2016). Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious roughly 350. Chicago, IL: For release in 2016 by University of Chicago Press
  • Everett, D. (2016). How Language Began For release in 2016 by Liveright Publishers
  • Everett, D. (2013). Shaping the Future of Business Education: Relevance, Rigor, and Life-Preparation 296pp. Palgrave-Macmillan (Link)
  • Everett, D. (2012). Language: The Cultural Tool 352. New York: Pantheon (Link)
  • Everett, D. (2011). Linguistic fieldwork: A Student Guide Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (Link)
  • Everett, D. (2008). Don't sleep, there are snakes: Life and language in the Amazonian Jungle 352. New York: Pantheon (Link)
  • Everett, D. (1997). Journal of Amazonian Languages, 1:1 and 1:2 University of Pittsburgh
  • Everett, D. (1997). Wari':The Pacaas-Novos Language of Western Brazil 536. Routledge (Link)
  • Everett, D. (1997). Why There are No Clitics 190. Arlington, TX: SIL-University of Texas, Arlington (Link)
  • Everett, D. (1990). A Lingua Pirah√£ e a Teoria da Sintaxe 410. UNICAMP (Link)
  • Everett, D. (1986). Baako-Kasi Translation of the Gospel of Mark in Piraha. Edicoes Vida Nova, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (1985). O Desenvolvimento de Teoria Chomskyana: Uma Discussao Epistemologica RLEE, Lima, Peru
  • Everett, D. (). American Aristotle: Charles Sanders Peirce and the Shaping of the American Mind Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press Forthcoming
  • Everett, D. L. (). Peircean Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Empiricist Thought app 400. New York, New York: Oxford University Press
  • Book Chapters


  • Everett, D. (2024). Transitivity in S¬¥eliÀás-Ql‚Äôisp¬¥e From Fieldwork to Linguistic Theory: A Tribute to Dan Everett. Language Sciences Press
  • Everett, D. (2024). Peirce's Journey to the End of Inquiry:The Tenure of the Soul Oxford Handbook on C.S. Peirce. Oxford University Press
  • Everett, D. (2024). Peirce‚Äôs Universal Grammar: Some Implications for Modern Linguistics Handbook of C.S. Peirce. Oxford University Press
  • Everett, D. (2024). Underspecified Temporal Semiosis in Pirah√£ Understanding Human Time. Oxford University Press
  • Everett, D. L. (2022). C.S. Peirce e a Gramatica Universal Linguagem, Sentido e Acao na Obra de Daniel L. Everett. Universidade Catolica de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2022). "O papel da Cultura na emerg√™ncia da Linguagem." Linguagem, Sentido e A√ß√£o na Obra de Daniel Everett. Pernambuco: Universidade Catolica de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2014). Instinct and Innate This Idea Must Die: Scientific theories that are blocking progress.
  • Everett, D. (2014). The Demise of the Scholar What should we be worried about: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night.
  • Everett, D. (2013). Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Piraha Don't Have Numbers Thinking: the New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction. HarperCollins
  • Everett, D. (2013). The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language The Handbook of Language Emergence. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Everett, D. (2012). Concentric Circles of Attachment in Pirah√£: A Brief Survey Different Faces of Attachment: Cultural Variations of a Universal Human Need. Cambridge University Press (Link)
  • Everett, D. (2009). Interview with Dan Everett Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable. Oxford University Press
  • Everett, D. (2009). Wari' Intentional State Construction Predicates Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Everett, D. (2004). Coherent Fieldwork Linguistics Today. John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Everett, D. (2001). Monolingual Field Research Fieldlinguistics. Cambridge University Press
  • Everett, D. (2000). Why There are no Clitics: On the Storage, Insertion, and Form of-features Lexical Specification and Insertion. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Everett, D. (1998). Wari' Morphology Handbook of Morphology. Basil Blackwell
  • Everett, D. (1995). Sistemas Prosodicos da Familia Arawa Estudos Fonologicos de Linguas Indigenas Brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Universidade Federal
  • Everett, D. (1986). Piraha Handbook of Amazonian Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
  • Everett, D. (1985). Dialogue and the Selection of Data for a Grammar Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Everett, D. Underspecified Temporal Semiosis in Pirah√£ Understanding Human Time.. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Everett, D. "Peirce's Journey to the End of Inquiry:The Tenure of the Soul," Handbook of C.S. Peirce. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Everett, D. "Towards a Peircean Linguistics" Oxford Handbook of C.S. Peirce.. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts


  • Everett, D. 2011. "Arts and Sciences and the New Educational Fusion"
  • Everett, D. 2011. "The Broccoli of Higher Ed."
  • Everett, D. 2011. "A Dean Brings Humanities to Business Education"
  • Other Scholarly Work


  • Everett, D. L. (2022). A evolucao da linguagem. UNICAP Pernambuco, (Linguagem, Sentido e Acao na Obra de Daniel L. Everett) .
  • Everett, D. L. (2022). Underspecified Temporal Semantics in Piraha. Oxford University Press, (Understanding Human Time) .
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). Language, Knowledge, and Global Paradoxes. Summer School at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, (Summer School at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany) .
  • Presentations


  • Smith, C., Rawls, A. W., Everett, D., Cao, X., Mohammadpour, A., Carney, N. (2024). “Making ‚ÄúTaken For Granted‚Äù Racism Visible” Presented at the Bentley University MLK A day of Social Justice, Celebration, Listening, and Learning Waltham, MA
  • Everett, D. (1964). “A filosofia de Charles Peirce” Presented at the ANPOF Brazilian Association for Postgraduate Philosophy Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2022). “Music in Piraha” Presented at the Princeton University Class on Ethnomusicology Princeton
  • Everett, D. (2022). “The science of language” Presented at the University of Latvia Conference in Honor Daniel L. Everett Riga, Latvia
  • Everett, D. (2022). “Discussion of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle”
  • Everett, D. (2022). “Discussion of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle”
  • Everett, D. (2022). “The Inferential Foundation of Human Language” Presented at the University of Lund Lecture by Daniel Everett Sweden
  • Everett, D. (2021). “In Search of Strange Things” Presented at the ABRALIN - Brazilian Linguistics Society ABRALIN Internet Course Internet/Brazil
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Language and the Brain” Presented at the Associacao Brasileira de Neurologia ( Associacao Brasileira de Neurologia Annual Meeting Brasilia, Brazil
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Dark Matter of the Mind and the Origins of Human Culture” Presented at the Global Now Fest 2021 Global Now Fest Bangalore India
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “A evolucao da linguagem e o cerebro” Presented at the Grupo de Pesquisa Conectivos e Conex√£o de Ora√ß√µes Grupo de Pesquisa Conectivos e Conex√£o de Ora√ß√µes Brasilia, Brazil
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Amazonian Research” Presented at the Harvard University Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society Meeting Cambridge, MA
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “A evolucao da linguagem” Presented at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, Brazil Language, Meaning, and Action in the Work of Daniel L. Everett Brazil
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “A Materia Escura da Mente” Presented at the Society of Psychoanalysts Porto Alegre Opening Year Lecture Society of Psychoanalysts Porto Alegre Brazil/Internet
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Culture, the Mind, and Origin of Language” Presented at the Sociedade de Psicoanalise de Porto Alegre Sociedade de Psicoanalise de Porto Alegre Brazil
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Language, Knowledge, and Global Paradoxes” Presented at the Summer School at Friedrich-Schiller University Summer School at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Dialogue and the Selection of Data for a Grammar,"” Presented at the University of Bologna Summer School on Linguistic Research, Catching Language Italy
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Temporal Semantics in Piraha” Presented at the Cambridge University, England Understanding Human Time Cambridge University, England
  • Everett, D. L. (2021). “Dark Matter of the Mind and Music” Presented at the University of Geneva, Switzerland Percevoir ‚Äì saisir ‚Äì comprendre : Music and tacit knowledge Geneva, Switzerland
  • Everett, D. (2020). “The future of language” Presented at the Google, O'Reilly Media, Nature (Journal), Digital Science SciFoo Camp Googleplex, Mountain View California
  • Everett, D. L. (2020). “In Search of Strange Things” Presented at the Winchester College Winchester College England, Invited Lecture Series Zoom
  • Everett, D. (2019). “Homo erectus Invented Language” Presented at the Department of Biology, NYU Biology Colloquium - New York University Department of Biology New York City
  • Everett, D. (2019). “How Language Began” Presented at the International Linguistics Festival, German government International Linguistics Festival, Berlin Berlin, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2019). “How Language Began” Presented at the Polish Government Poznan Linguistics Conference Poznan, Poland
  • Everett, D. (2019). “Latin American Indigenous Cultures in Western Science and Society” Presented at the Ohio State University Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures Columbus, OH
  • Everett, D. (2019). “O Papel da Cultura na Linguagem e na Cognic√£o” Presented at the ABRALIN - Brazilian Linguistics Society 50th Anniversary, Brazilian Linguistics Society - ABRALIN Maceio, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2019). “How Language Began” Presented at the Copernicus Society, Poland Copernicus Festival Krakow, Poland
  • Everett, D. (2015). “Dark Matter of the Mind” Presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder The Institute of Cognitive Science Colloquium Boulder, CO
  • Everett, D. (2015). “Nonrecursive, nonendocentric, and nonbinary structures in Amazonian Languages: counterexamples vs. exceptions” Presented at the Bangor University North Wales
  • Everett, D. (2015). “Demons Among Us” Presented at the The Institute of Art and Ideas HowtheLightGetsIn Festival Hay-on-Wye, UK
  • Everett, D. (2015). “Mind, Matter and the Self” Presented at the The Institute of Art and Ideas HowtheLightGetsIn Festival Hay-on-Wye, UK
  • Everett, D. (2015). “Nonrecursive, nonendocentric, and nonbinary structures in Amazonian Languages: counterexamples vs. exceptions” Presented at the UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
  • Everett, D. (2014). “On the role of culture in the Emergence of Language” Presented at the Columbia University New York, NY
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Tacit Knowledge: How We Come to Know Things That We Cannot Tell” Presented at the University of Iceland Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Numerical Cognition in Piraha” Presented at the University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Dark Matter of the Mind” Presented at the The Einstein Forum Potsdam, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2014). “On the role of culture in the Emergence of Language” Presented at the University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2014). “On the role of culture in the Emergence of Language” Presented at the Pennsylvania State University Watz Memorial Lecture State College, PA
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Recursion and the Evolution of Language and Thought” Presented at the Osaka University Japan
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Culture and Grammar in a Functional-Based Linguistics” Presented at the Nagoya University Japan
  • Everett, D. (2014). “On the role of culture in the Emergence of Grammar” Presented at the Keio University Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Tokyo, Japan
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Recursion and the Evolution of Language and Thought” Presented at the Keio University Seminar at the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Tokyo, Japan
  • Everett, D. (2014). “A cultura na analise linguistica” Presented at the Seminario de Linguistica da Unesp, no Campus da Faculdade de Ciencias e Letras da Unesp de Araraquara-SP VI SELIN Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2014). “The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language” Presented at the Universidade Estadual de Maringa 3rd Coloquio Internacional de Estudos Linguisticos e Literarios Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2014). “On the role of culture in the Emergence of Language” Presented at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology's Annual Meeting Walter Lonner Distinguished Lecture Reims, France
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Ultimate Proof” Presented at the The Institute of Art and Ideas HowtheLightGetsIn Festival Hay-on-Wye, UK
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Dark Matter of the Mind” Presented at the Institute of Art and Ideas HowtheLightGetsIn Festival Hay-on-Wye, UK
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves” Presented at the The Institute of Art and Ideas HowtheLightGetsIn Festival Hay-on-Wye, UK
  • Everett, D. (2014). “Tacit Knowledge- How can we know that which we do not know” Presented at the Martin Buber Society Conference Jerusalem
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Shaping the Future of Business Education” Presented at the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) Undergraduate Management Education St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia
  • Everett, D. (2013). “A Reconsideration of the Reification of Linguistics” Presented at the The British Academy The Cognitive Revolution - 60 Years On London, UK
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Why there is no innate universal grammar” Presented at the University of Groningen Multilingualism Symposium Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Monolingual Demonstration” Presented at the Linguistics Society of America Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Ann Arbor, MI
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Towards Ethnogrammar” Presented at the Max Planck Institute Leipzig, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Language and Culture” Presented at the University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Cultural Effects on Grammar” Presented at the University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Cultural Effects on Grammar” Presented at the California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Cultural Effects on Grammar” Presented at the University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Language, Culture and Being Human” Presented at the Lake Forest Academy Lake Forest, IL
  • Everett, D. (2013). “Towards Ethnogrammar: A New Research Program” Presented at the Rice University 5th Biennial Meeting of the Rice Linguistics Society Houston, TX
  • Everett, D. (2012). “Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface” Presented at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat 'Language: The Cultural Tool' Colloquium Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2012). “Language: the Cultural Tool” Presented at the Cohen Institute Israel
  • Everett, D. (2012). “Life and Language in the Amazon” Presented at the Eton College England
  • Everett, D. (2012). “Quotatives in Wari' and Piraha: different strategies for reporting the contents of other minds” Presented at the Ruhr University Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy and Linguistics Bochum, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2012). “Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle: the Difficult Task of Understanding Others” Presented at the INRS Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema Montreal, Canada
  • Everett, D. (2012). “Cognitive Fire: How Language Emerges to Serve Human Needs” Presented at the Williams College The Annual Richmond Lecture Williamstown, MA
  • Wiggins, R. A., Everett, D. (2012). “Developing Tomorrow's Curricula: Collaborative Design across Traditional Faculty Boundaries” Presented at the AACSB 2012 AACSB Deans Conference New Orleans, LA
  • Everett, D. (2011). “Lessons on Language and Culture from the Amazon” Presented at the Wilfrid Laurier College Grand River Forum Toronto, ON
  • Everett, D. (2011). “Language as a Cultural Tool” Presented at the Brazil Israel Philosophy Colloquium on Mind and Language Universidade Federal do Paran√°, Curitiba, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2011). “Cognitive Fire: Language as a Cultural Tool” Presented at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 26th Linguistics Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization Milwaukee, WI
  • Everett, D. (2010). “Where idealizations fail: grammars as cultural artifacts” Presented at the University of Vienna International Conference on Space, numerical systems and color terminologies: Theoretical approaches and empirical analyses Austria
  • Everett, D. (2010). “Life Among the Pirahas” Presented at the University of Vienna Museum of Ethnology Austria
  • Everett, D. (2010). “Culture, Cognition, and Language” Presented at the University of Osnabruek Germany
  • Everett, D. (2009). “Recursion in Piraha” Presented at the University of Massachusetts NSF Conference on Recursion MA
  • Everett, D. (2009). “Endangered Languages, lost knowledge, and the future” Presented at the Long Now Organization
  • Everett, D. (2009). Presented at the University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Forum on Human Origins Santa Barbara, CA
  • Everett, D. (2007). “Cultural Constraints on Recursion” Presented at the International Conference on Recursion in Human Language
  • Everett, D. (2007). “Jamesian Linguistics and the Nature of Language” Presented at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar Mexico City
  • Everett, D. (2007). Presented at the Linguistics Society of America Symposium on Missionaries and Linguists
  • Everett, D. (2007). “Culture, Linguistics and Ethnogrammar” Presented at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Workshop on 'Language complexity as an evolving variable' Leipzig, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2006). “Phonology and Field Research” Presented at the 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting Manchester, UK
  • Everett, D. (2006). “Exocentric Syntax: RRG vs. the World” Presented at the University of Leipzig International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar Leipzig, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2006). “Rarities, Culture and the Evolution of Language” Presented at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology International Conference on Rara and Rarissima Leipzig, Germany
  • Everett, D. (2006). “Exocentric Morphology” Presented at the York University York-Essex Morphology Meeting (YEMM 3)
  • Everett, D. (2005). “Questoes Empiricas na Avaliacao da Linguistica Formal” Presented at the Meeting of the Grupo de Trabalho on Formal Linguistics of the Brazilian Association of Letters and Linguistics Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2005). Presented at the Brazilian Linguistics Society (ABRALIN) Annual Meeting University of Brasilia
  • Everett, D. (2005). Presented at the RRG 2005 Taiwan
  • Everett, D. (2004). “How to document a language” Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting Symposium on Documenting Endangered Languages: Goals, Methods and Strategies Seattle, WA
  • Everett, D. (2004). “Liminal Categories and the Theory of Words” Presented at the University of Leipzig Workshop on Word Domains: Theory and Typology Germany
  • Everett, D. (2004). “Oracoes exocentricas, Categorias Liminais e etnossintaxe” Presented at the University of Brasilia International Conference on Tupi Languages Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2003). “Coherent Fieldwork” Presented at the 17th International Congress of Linguists Prague, Czech Republic
  • Everett, D. (2003). “Why We Should be Concerned About Syntaxes We Don't Know” Presented at the UNESP Conference on Role and Reference Grammar Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Everett, D. (2003). “Morphological Irregularities in the Amazon” Presented at the Irregularities in Morphological Paradigms Manchester, UK
  • Everett, D. (2002). “Particulars vs. Universals in Theories of Phrase Structure” Presented at the University of La Rioja Conference on Role and Reference Grammar and Functional Grammar Logrono, Spain
  • Everett, D. (2002). “Monolingual Demonstration and Fieldwork Seminar” Presented at the University of Michigan Symposium on Kenneth L. Pike Ann Arbor, MI
  • Everett, D. (1999). “Being Truth in Academics” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University Veritas Forum PA
  • Everett, D. (1998). “Tutorial on Monolingual Fieldwork” Presented at the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America New York
  • Everett, D. (1998). “None Forms, Inputs, and Comparative Optimality: Experimentation and the Obligatory Contour Principle in Modern Hebrew, Current Trends in Phonology II” Presented at the Royaumont Abbey Paris, France
  • Everett, D. (1997). “Jungle Talk: Conversational Styles in Amazonia” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Annual Founder's Day Conference Pittburgh, PA
  • Everett, D. (1993). “Discourse, Cognition and the Theory of Grammar” Presented at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Richard King Mellon Annual Lecture Series Pittburgh, PA
  • Everett, D. (1993). “Blocking Constraints, Obligatory Rules, and Optimality Theory” Presented at the University of Manchester Workshop on Cognitive Phonology England
  • Everett, D. (1991). “On the Storage, Insertion and Form-of Features” Presented at the Research Institute for Language and Speech, University of Utrecht Workshop on Lexical Specification and Lexical Insertion Netherlands
  • Everett, D. (1990). “A Morphosyntactic and Phonological Comparison of Arawan and Capacuran: Any Evidence for a Genetic Classification?” Presented at the University of Colorado Conference on Greenberg's Classification of Languages of the Americas Boulder, CO
  • Everett, D. (1987). “The Status of Phonological Research in Lowland South America” Presented at the University of Oregon Working Conference on Amazonian Languages Eugene, OR
  • Reviews


  • Everett, D. (2013). The shaman's-eye view: A Yanomami verdict on us.
  • Everett, D. (2009). "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Arika Okrent.
  • Everett, D. (2007). "The Navajo Sound System" by Joyce McDonough.
  • Everett, D. (2001). "The Amazonian Languages" by R.M.W Dixon & Alexandra K. Aikhenvald. , (6) 1
  • Everett, D. (1998). "Logical Form: From GB to Minimalism" by Norbert Hornstein. , (74) 1
  • Everett, D. (1996). "Phonological Analysis: A Functional Approach" by David Payne and Donald Burquest. , (13) 2
  • Everett, D. (1991). "Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages" by Doris Payne. 67 1.
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  • Department Chair, Illinois State University, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures for Illinois State University, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures 1/1/06 - 12/31/10
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  • Editor (Associate), Journal for Language 1/1/91 - 12/31/94
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  • Dean for Bentley University, School of Arts and Sciences 1/1/10 - Present
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