# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-c-dik
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:37:32.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-c-dik"
name: "Simon C. Dik"
slug: "simon-c-dik"
description: "Simon Cornelis Dik was a Dutch linguist, most famous for developing the theory of functional grammar. He occupied the chair of General Linguistics at University of Amsterdam between 1969 and 1994. During these 25 years he developed the theory of functional grammar, the foundations for which had been laid in his 1968 dissertation on coordination."
tagline: "Dutch linguist (1940-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_S._C._Dik_aan_het_woord%2C_Bestanddeelnr_923-6406.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-09-06"
deathDate: "1995-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Simon Cornelis Dik"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cornelis_Dik"
    title: "Simon Cornelis Dik"
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    title: "Simon C. Dik"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_C._Dik"
    title: "Simon C. Dik"
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    title: "Simon C. Dik"
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    title: "Simon C. Dik"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_C._Dik"
    title: "Simon C. Dik"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cornelis_Dik"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Dik"
    title: "Simon Dik"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2037380"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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