# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-van-valin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:20:32.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-van-valin"
name: "Robert Van Valin"
slug: "robert-van-valin"
description: "Robert D. Van Valin Jr. is an American linguist and the principal researcher behind the development of Role and Reference Grammar, a functional theory of grammar encompassing syntax, semantics, and discourse pragmatics. His 1997 book Syntax: structure, meaning and function is an attempt to provide a model for syntactic analysis which is just as relevant for languages like Dyirbal and Lakhota as it is for more commonly studied Indo-European languages."
tagline: "Linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.81
  momentum:             6.746987951807229
  historical:           7.205004000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Valin"
    title: "Robert Van Valin"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت فان فالين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Van_Valin%2C_Jr."
    title: "Robert D. Van Valin, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Valin_Jr."
    title: "Robert Van Valin Jr."
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Valin"
    title: "Robert Van Valin"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Valin"
    title: "Robert Van Valin"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Valin"
    title: "Robert Van Valin"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Valin"
    title: "Robert Van Valin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q481107"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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