# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-m-w-dixon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:25:26.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-m-w-dixon"
name: "R. M. W. Dixon"
slug: "r-m-w-dixon"
description: "Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon is a British linguist and the Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director of The Language and Culture Research Centre at JCU. Doctor of Letters, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by JCU in 2018. Fellow of British Academy; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he is one of three living linguists to be specifically mentioned in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by Peter Matthews (2014)."
tagline: "Australian linguist and author"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.564876438115875
  historical:           11.616236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Робърт Диксън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "R. M. W. Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert M. W. Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Malcolm_Ward_Dixon"
    title: "Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon"
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    title: "Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump