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, 2016 and there have been great reviews so far in The Times, London Theatre, The Reviews Hub, and What’s on Stage, to name a few, plus an interview with the actor who plays me. More information is available on the Simple8 site as well as the Park Theatre site, and a copy of the program is available here.
Books
How Language BeganSeptember 29, 2016 - 1:52 am
Dark Matter of the MindMarch 15, 2016 - 1:29 pm
Language the Cultural ToolApril 30, 2014 - 3:03 pm
Don’t Sleep There are SnakesApril 29, 2014 - 3:16 pm
Shaping the Future of Business EducationApril 27, 2014 - 2:24 pm
Linguistic FieldworkApril 26, 2014 - 3:04 pm
Why There are no CliticsApril 25, 2014 - 3:12 pm
The Journal of Amazonian LanguagesApril 24, 2014 - 3:04 pm
WariApril 20, 2014 - 1:50 pm
A Lingua Piraha e a Teoria da SintaxeApril 18, 2014 - 3:09 pm
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Blog: Dark Matter of the Mind
- The logical issue of claims of recursionJune 19, 2019 - 1:46 pm
Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch (2002) claimed that recursion is the fundamental basis for language, the sole member of the FLN (Narrow Faculty of Language): “We hypothesize that FLN only includes recursion and is the only uniquely human component of the faculty of language.” In Everett (2005), however, I argued that the Piraha language of Brazil […]
- Thoughts on DiversityJune 26, 2017 - 12:21 pm
My newest article appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on April 30, 2017. “In a Pirahã village along the Maici River in Brazil, I squeezed mustard onto a piece of bread. An old woman from the village watched me. “Why do you eat bird shit?,” she asked. There was irritation in her voice. Then […]
- Translation for an interesting Piraha textMarch 6, 2017 - 6:10 pm
Sept. 29 A MFX3 (younger guy) 0001C6.MP4 00:00:17 Ti baabihia saagoai ‘Am I getting ill?’ (joking comment made by Kaiowa to himself as he waits) 00:00:25 Dan to Kaiowa: Baihiigi ‘(taping) goes slowly’ Kaiowa to Dan: Xai baihiigi. Xaio. ‘Yeah. Slowly. That’s right.’
- A discussion of “Understanding Recursion and Looking for Self-Embedding in Pirahã”December 19, 2016 - 1:52 pm
A discussion of Understanding Recursion and Looking for Self-Embedding in Pirahã, by Raiane Oliveira Salles, Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/26480/26480.PDF In the decades since I began field research on the Pirahã language, in December of 1977, 39 years ago, no one else has done any descriptive linguistics field research on this language. Brazilian […]
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