# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-givon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:42.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-givon"
name: "Thomas Givon"
slug: "thomas-givon"
description: "Thomas Givon, also known as Talmy Givón, is a Palestinian linguist and writer. He is one of the founders of \"West Coast Functionalism\", today classified as a usage-based model of language, and of the linguistics department at the University of Oregon. Givón advocates an evolutionary approach to language and communication."
tagline: "Israeli linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.21
  momentum:             0.9836065573770492
  historical:           5.476854666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توماس گیون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توماس جيڤون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Givon"
    title: "Thomas Givon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOMAS_GIVON"
    title: "THOMAS GIVON"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmy_Givon"
    title: "Talmy Givon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Гивон, Талми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4137966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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