'Winfred P. Lehmann' (born
23 June,
1916 in
Surprise, Nebraska – died
1 August,
2007 in
Austin, Texas) was a
historical linguist who served as the director of the
Linguistics Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin from
1961 until his death.
He was educated in
Wisconsin, receiving his
Bachelor's degree from
Northwestern College in
Watertown in
1936, his
Master's degree from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1938 and his
Ph.D. from the same institution in
1941. He began teaching at UT-Austin in
1949 and has been since
1986.
An important contribution was his ''Proto-Indo-European Syntax'', the first and one of the few existing treatments of Proto-Indo-European syntax in a generative framework.
In 1979 he published an updated version of
Schleicher's fable together with
Ladislav Zgusta.
Partial bibliography:
★ 2002. ''Pre-Indo-European''. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man. ISBN 0-941694-82-8.
★ 1993. ''Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics''. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08201-3.
★ 1992. ''Historical Linguistics'' 3rd ed. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07243-3.
★ 1974. ''Proto-Indo-European Syntax'' Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-76419-7
★ 1952. ''Proto-Indo-European Phonology'' Austin: Univ. of Texas Press and Linguistic Society of America. ISBN 0-292-73341-0. (2005.
Online version.)
External links
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Winfred P. Lehmann
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Notice of death on
LINGUIST List