Wolfgang U. Dressler

Wolfgang U. Dressler
Born (1939-12-22) 22 December 1939 (age 84)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna

Wolfgang U. Dressler (born 22 December 1939) is an Austrian professor of linguistics[1] at the University of Vienna. Dressler is a polyglot[2] and scholar[3] who has contributed to various fields of linguistics, especially phonology, morphology,[4] text linguistics,[5] clinical linguistics and child language development. He is an important representative of the 'naturalness theory'.

  1. ^ Zienkowski, Jan; Östman, Jan-Ola; Verschueren, Jef (15 June 2011). Discursive Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 286. ISBN 9789027207852. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Department of Linguistics". Dressler speaks at least, in addition to Austrian German, "English, French, Italian, Polish". Retrieved 20 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Academy of Europe". Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ^ Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Luschützky, Hans C.; Pfeiffer, Oskar E.; Rennison, John R. (3 June 2011). Contemporary Morphology. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-087408-2.
  5. ^ Dressler, Wolfgang U. (21 November 2014). Current Trends in Textlinguistics. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-085375-9.