# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-leech
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:59:30.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-leech"
name: "Geoffrey Leech"
slug: "geoffrey-leech"
description: "Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics."
tagline: "British linguist (1936–2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-01-16"
deathDate: "2014-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.37
  momentum:             7.105263157894737
  historical:           8.087870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джофрі Ліч"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "جيوفرى ليتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Leech"
    title: "Geoffrey Leech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Leech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Leech"
    title: "Geoffrey Leech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Leech"
    title: "Geoffrey Leech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81"
    title: "ジェフリー・リーチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Leech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Leech"
    title: "Geoffrey Leech"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1503023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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