Winfred P. Lehmann

Winfred P. Lehmann
Born(1916-06-23)June 23, 1916
DiedAugust 1, 2007(2007-08-01) (aged 91)
Spouse
Ruth Preston Miller
(m. 1940, died)
Children2
AwardsCommander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1987)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineHistorical linguistics
Institutions
Main interests
Notable works
  • Proto-Indo-European Phonology (1952)[1][2]
  • Historical Linguistics (1962)[3][2]
  • Proto-Indo-European Syntax (1974)[1]
  • Syntactic Typology (1981)[2]
  • Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986)[1][2]
  • Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics (1993)[2]
  • Pre-Indo-European (2002)[1]
Notable ideasOV / VO dichotomy, Fundamental Principle of Placement (FPP)

Winfred Philip Lehmann (June 23, 1916 – August 1, 2007) was an American linguist who specialized in historical, Germanic, and Indo-European linguistics. He was for many years a professor and head of departments for linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as president of both the Linguistic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. Lehmann was also a pioneer in machine translation. He lectured a large number of future scholars at Austin, and was the author of several influential works on linguistics.