# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-kay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:09:40.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-kay"
name: "Paul Kay"
slug: "paul-kay"
description: "Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969) ISBN 1-57586-162-3. More recently, he has worked in the area of Construction Grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar. He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with Charles J. Fillmore, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-11-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673110666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/paul-kay"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kay"
    title: "Paul Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "باول كاي (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول كاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ポール・ケイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kay"
    title: "Paul Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kay"
    title: "Paul Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322713"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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