# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-abbott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:25:03.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-abbott"
name: "Barbara Abbott"
slug: "barbara-abbott"
description: "Barbara Kenyon Abbott is an American linguist. She earned her PhD in linguistics in 1976 at the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of George Lakoff. From 1976 to 2006, she was a professor in the department of linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African languages at Michigan State University, with a joint appointment in philosophy. She is now a Professor Emerita."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39
  momentum:             15.99805258033106
  historical:           5.936789333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Abbott"
    title: "Barbara Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "باربرا أبوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbott_Barbara"
    title: "Ebbott Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9F"
    title: "বারবারা অ্যাবট"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Abbott"
    title: "Barbara Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Abbott"
    title: "Barbara Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Abbott"
    title: "Barbara Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20054604"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump