Dan Everett on the excitement of being a linguist
One evening, Linea Flansmose Mikkelsen and Liv Moeslund Ahlgren met up in Lingoland at Aarhus University and set up a zoom-connection across the Atlantic Ocean to talk to Dan Everett. He is an American linguist, best known for his work on the Pirahã language, and is currently a professor at Bentley University. This is the first part of the interview, where we talk about Dan Everett’s career, motivations and his dream project.
In the second part of the interview, we discuss the ethical aspects of doing fieldwork.
Can you tell a bit about yourself and how you got into linguistics?
Yeah, so I got into linguistics in order to be a bible translator. I met a young woman … ↪