# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-bickerton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:33:06.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-bickerton"
name: "Derek Bickerton"
slug: "derek-bickerton"
description: "Derek Bickerton was an English-born American linguist, novelist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the originator and main proponent of the language bioprogram hypothesis according to which the similarity of creoles is due to their being formed from a prior pidgin by children who all share a universal human innate grammar capacity."
tagline: "British American linguist (1926–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Bickerton_at_the_2004_conference_Universal_Forum_of_Cultures_in_Barcelona.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-03-25"
deathDate: "2018-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.112676056338028
  historical:           12.94481733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1545966"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump