Daniel Everett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Daniel Everett

American linguist

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1951

Place of Birth: Holtville, California, United States

Profession: writer, missionary, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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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. Everett is currently Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
From July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2018 Everett served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley.
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 the University of Campinas and is former Chair of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pittsburgh.
He is married to Linda Ann Everett. In 2016, the University of Chicago press published Everett's book Dark Matter of the Mind: the Culturally Articulated Unconscious.
In November 2017 he published How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention with Liveright (W.W.Norton).
He is currently working on American Aristotle: The Life and Mind of Charles Sanders Peirce for Princeton University Press.