# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-jackendoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:25:33.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-jackendoff"
name: "Ray Jackendoff"
slug: "ray-jackendoff"
description: "Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and was, with Daniel Dennett, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed to both the existence of an innate universal grammar and to giving an account of language that is consistent with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition."
tagline: "American linguist and philosophy professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Jackendoff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump