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Line 1: {{Short description\|Australian linguist (born 1956)}} '''Nicholas Evans''' (born 1956 in [[Los Angeles, California\|Los Angeles, USA]]) is an Australian linguist and a leading expert on endangered languages.<ref>[http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/about-us/our-story Our Story: Asia and the Pacific: ANU], anu.edu.au. Retrieved 22 October 2017.</ref>▼ {{BLP sources\|date=February 2020}} {{use dmy dates\|date=October 2020}} {{use Australian English\|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox academic \| name = Nicholas Evans \| image = \| caption = \| birth_name = \| birth_date = 1956 \| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], United States \| death_date = \| death_place = \| nationality = Australian \| occupation = Linguist \| spouse = \| alma_mater = [[Australian National University]] \| influences = \| workplaces = [[Australian National University]] \| main_interests = [[Australian languages]], [[Papuan languages]], [[linguistic typology]] \| notable_works = \| notable_ideas = \| influenced = \| signature = \| signature_size = \| footnotes = \| awards = {{Plainlist\| * [[Australian Laureate Fellowship]] (2013) }} }} ▲'''Nicholas Evans''' (born 1956 ~~in [[Los Angeles, California\|Los Angeles, USA]]~~) is an Australian [[linguist]] and a leading expert on [[endangered ~~languages~~language]]s. He was born in [[Los Angeles]].<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> Holding a [[Ph.D.]] in [[Linguistics]] from the [[Australian National University]] (ANU), he is Head of the Department of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific, ~~[[Australian~~at ~~National University]]~~ANU. Formerly, he held a personal chair in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the [[University of Melbourne]]. His research ~~Interests~~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. ~~His~~He ~~current~~worked ~~projects~~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 ~~Gun-wok~~Kunwok]], [[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]].{{citation needed\|date=October 2020}} Evans signed the [[Declaration on the Common Language]] of the [[Croats]], [[Serbs]], [[Bosniaks]] and [[Montenegrins]] in 2019.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XVGV5Z306SeDFzpdpUHhfeK-voAFdaakS48LqXfGozA/pubhtml Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language], official website. Retrieved 17 November 2019.</ref> ~~==Works==~~ Evans, Nicholas (2011). ''Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us'', John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-444-35961-9.▼ ==Awards and honours== 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> ==Selected works== ▲Evans, Nicholas (2011). ''Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us'', John Wiley & Sons. {{ISBN \|978-1-444-35961-9}}. {{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 (2005). "Australian Languages Reconsidered: A Review of Dixon (2002)". ''Oceanic Linguistics'' 44 (1), pp. 242–286. Evans, Nicholas (ed.) (2003). ''The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region.'' Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. x + 513. Evans, Nicholas (2003). ''Bininj Gun-wok: a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune.'' (2 volumes). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Evans, Nicholas and Hans-Jürgen Sasse (eds) (2002). ''Problems of Polysynthesis.'' Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Studia Typologica, Neue Reihe. Evans, Nicholas (1998). "Aborigines Speak a Primitive Language". In: Bauer, Laurie; Trudgill, Peter. ''Language Myths'', Penguin Books, pp.  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}} Evans, Nicholas (1995). ''A Grammar of Kayardild''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ==References== {{reflist}} ~~<references/>~~ ==External links== * [http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/people/personal/evann_ling.php Professor Nicholas Evans - Researchers - ANU], anu.edu.au. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130410223328/http://chl.anu.edu.au/linguistics/projects/sng_project/ Languages of Southern New Guinea - SNG Project], anu.edu.au. *{{cite web \| title=Evans, Nicholas (1956-) [search] \| website=Trove\|publisher=National Library of Australia \| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?keyword=exact_creator%3A%22Evans,%20Nicholas%20%281956-%29%22 }} {{Authority control}} Line 26 ⟶ 63: {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Nicholas}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:~~Australian~~Linguists ~~linguists~~from Australia]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Australian National University alumni]] [[Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University ~~faculty~~]] [[Category:Academic staff of the University of Melbourne ~~faculty~~]] [[Category:Linguists of ~~the~~ Australian ~~aboriginal~~Aboriginal languages]] [[Category:~~Paleolinguists~~Historical linguists]] [[Category:Linguists of Tangkic languages]] [[Category:Linguists of Gunwinyguan languages]] [[Category:Linguists of Papuan languages]] [[Category:Linguists of Yam languages]] [[Category:Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language]] [[Category:Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy]] [[Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities]] [[Category:Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies]]