Daniel Everett

Daniel Everett is a fascinating figure to me because his story crosses so many worlds. He went into the Amazon as a missionary to study the Pirahã people, and ended up having his own faith and some core ideas about language overturned by what he found. His claims about Pirahã grammar sparked one of the biggest debates in modern linguistics, putting him at odds with Chomskyan theory. Whether or not you agree with him, I admire that he let decades of fieldwork actually change his mind. He's now a sociology professor at Bentley University, and I find that arc, missionary to skeptic to scholar, genuinely compelling.

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Name (English)

Daniel Everett

Name (Japanese)

ダニエル・エヴェレット

Reading

だにえる・えゔぇれっと

Born

July 26, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Holtville, California, United States

Occupation

linguist / university teacher / writer / missionary / anthropologist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

University

University of Campinas

• Official sitehttps://daneverettbooks.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/amazonrambler
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Everett
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q666678

Tags

• California
• linguist
• university teacher
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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