# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-a-foley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:56:00.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-a-foley"
name: "William A. Foley"
slug: "william-a-foley"
description: "William A. Foley is an American linguist and professor at Columbia University. He previously worked at the University of Sydney. He specializes in Papuan and Austronesian languages. Foley developed Role and Reference Grammar in a partnership with Robert Van Valin."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.125
  historical:           8.339381333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Foley"
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    title: "ويليام أ. فولي"
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    title: "ويليام ا. فولى"
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    title: "Uilyam Foli"
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    title: "William A. Foley"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Foley"
    title: "William A. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Foley"
    title: "William A. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foley"
    title: "William Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Foley"
    title: "William A. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Foley"
    title: "William A. Foley"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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