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Upcoming Events 2025

Events 2025: Feb 11, 2025 – Talk at Max Planck Institute Nijmegen, NL “Inferential Foundation of Human Language” Feb 12, 2025 – Talk at…
From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to Dan Everett
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UPDATES 2021

I have reduced my travel plans, as well as my social media presence in order to concentrate on two major projects that see my…
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How language began | Dan Everett | TEDxSanFrancisco

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Talk the Talk Podcast

An interview in which I discuss serious problems with the very concept of Universal Grammar. Listen Now: (more…)
Universal Grammar 2 (featuring Dan Everett and Lynne Murphy)
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The Kingdom of Speech/Tom Wolfe

In August 2016, author Tom Wolfe published a book , The Kingdom of Speech, in which he discusses the work of four major figures…
The Kingdom of Speech/Tom Wolfe
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Blessid

I have been listed as a producer on Blessid, a local indie film. It is a suspense drama about a pregnant woman who forms…
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Play based on Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes

Simple8, a theatre company based in London, has produced a play based on my book Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes. It opened March 22,…
Play based on Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes
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Current Project – Dark Matter of the Mind

Dark Matter of the Mind: How Unseen Forces Shape our Words and World” for the University of Chicago Press, for release in late 2014.…
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Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves

Thomas Hobbes believed life before civilisation was nasty, brutish and short. From diets to lifestyles, some anthropologists think otherwise. Did hunter gatherers have a…
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Intensive Writer’s Retreat

Our first intensive writer’s retreat was held in New York City in mid-April, 2013 with Liu Sola, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dmitry Glukhovsky and myself. Grethe Holby, far right,…
Intensive Writer's Retreat 2013
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Opera: The Three Astronauts – final production in 2015

I have had the honor and privilege of joining Ardea Arts and the Family Opera Initiative in developing the extraordinary children’s book The Three…
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Shaping the Future of Business Education – now available

This book was edited by Gordon Hardy, Senior Associate Director of Content, Communication and Creative Services at Bentley University, and myself and addresses Bentley’s undergraduate…
Shaping the Future of Business Education cover