Winfred P. Lehmann

Winfred Philipp Lehmann (born June 23, 1916 in Surprise, Nebraska ; † August 1, 2007 ) was an American linguist of German origin.

Life

Winfred P. Lehmann was born into a German immigrant family, so his mother tongue was German. His parents were Philipp Ludwig Lehmann , Lutheran pastor, and Elenore Friederike geb. Grosnick . He had been married to the Anglicist Ruth Preston Miller Lehmann († April 3, 2000) since 1940 . She was a professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin .

Lehmann studied "Germanic Linguistics" at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee , where he received his Ph.D. From 1942 to 1946 he was an expert on the Japanese language for the American Army . In 1946 he became an assistant professor in the Germanic Department of Washington University and in 1949 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a professor until his retirement in 1986. His last title was Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor Emeritus in the Humanities.

He particularly excelled in historical linguistics , especially in Indo-European studies . He was one of the few who dealt extensively with the research of the syntax of the Indo-European original language and its prehistory. His approach (controversial in the professional world) uses the generative grammar and the methods of the language typology of Theo Vennemann , with whom he also cooperated a lot.

Fonts

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 .

Honors

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Honorary Doctorate from the State University of New York
Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (September 23, 1986)

literature

Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1068-1070 (for a fee from de Gruyter Online).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Office of the Federal President

personal data
SURNAME	Lehmann, Winfred P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lehmann, Winfred Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Surprise, Nebraska
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 2007

[1] Office of the Federal President