# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-adger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:06:20.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-adger"
name: "David Adger"
slug: "david-adger"
description: "David Adger is a professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Adger is interested in the human capacity for syntax. Adger served as president of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2015 to 2020."
tagline: "Scottish linguist, Professor of Linguistics"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump