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'''Nicholas Evans''' (born 1956) is an Australian [[linguist]] and a leading expert on [[endangered language]]s. He was born in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles, USA]].<ref name=anu>[http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/about-us/our-story Our Story: Asia and the Pacific: ANU], anu.edu.au. Retrieved 22 October 2017.</ref>

His research interests include [[Aboriginal Australian languages]], [[Papuan languages]], [[linguistic typology]], [[Historical linguistics|historical]] and [[contact linguistics]], [[Semantics (linguistics)|semantics]], and the mutual influence of language and culture. He worked at the [[Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies]] in 2003 for the school of Celtic Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Evans, Nicholas |url=https://www.dias.ie/2010/09/16/evans-nicholas/ |website=DIAS}}</ref> Recent focuses include the way in which diverse grammars underpin social cognition (with Alan Rumsey and others); ongoing fieldwork on various Aboriginal languages of Northern Australia ([[Dalabon language|Dalabon]], [[Iwaidja language|Iwaidja]], [[Marrku language|Marrku]], [[Bininj Kunwok language|Bininj Gun-wok]], [[Kayardild language|Kayardild]]); Papuan languages ([[Nen language (Papuan)|Nen]], [[Idi language|Idi]]), work on endangered song-language traditions of Western [[Arnhem Land]] (with Allan Marett, [[Linda Barwick]] and Murray Garde), and the development of coevolutionary approaches that integrate the dynamic interactions between language, culture and cognition. In addition to his linguistic research he has carried out more applied work in [[Australian Aboriginal]] communities in various capacities, including interpreting and preparing anthropologists' reports in Native Title claims, and writing about the new art being produced by artists from [[Bentinck Island, Queensland|Bentinck Island]].{{cncitation needed|date=October 2020}}

Evans was elected a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Nicholas Evans |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=347 |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref> In 2013, he was awarded an [[Australian Laureate Fellowship]].<ref name=laureate>{{cite news |url=http://news.anu.edu.au/2013/07/11/arc-project-grant-success/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715232302/http://news.anu.edu.au/2013/07/11/arc-project-grant-success/ |title=ARC project grant success |date=11 July 2013 |archive-date=15 July 2013 |access-date=22 January 2018 |work=[[Australian National University]] }}</ref>

*{{Citation | author1=Evans, Nicholas | author2=Martin-Chew, Louise | author3=Memmott, Paul|author3-link=Paul Memmott | author4=Woomera Aboriginal Corporation. Mornington Island Arts & Craft | title=The heart of everything: the art and artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands | year=2008 | publication-date=2008 | publisher=McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books | isbn=978-0-9804494-1-9}}<ref>Note: Evans is quoted in [https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/10516/1/10516_Milledge_2008.pdf ''Blak Roots''], an exhibition catalogue.</ref>

*Evans, Nicholas (1998). "Aborigines Speak a Primitive Language". In: Bauer, Laurie; Trudgill, Peter. ''Language Myths'', Penguin Books, pp. &nbsp;159–168. {{ISBN|978-0-141-93910-0}}.

*{{cite book | editor-last1 = McConvell | editor-first1 = Patrick | editor-last2 = Evans | editor-first2 = Nicholas (eds) | year = 1997 | title = Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective | publisher = Oxford University Press Australia | location = Melbourne | isbn = 0-19-553728-9}}

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[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Melbourne faculty]]

[[Category:Linguists of Australian aboriginalAboriginal languages]]

[[Category:PaleolinguistsHistorical linguists]]

[[Category:RecipientsCorresponding Fellows of grants or fellowships from the Australian ResearchBritish CouncilAcademy]]