Winfred P. Lehmann

Winfred P. Lehmann
Born	(1916-06-23)June 23, 1916 Surprise, Nebraska, US
Died	August 1, 2007(2007-08-01) (aged 91) Austin, Texas, US
Nationality	American
Spouse	Ruth Preston Miller ​ ​ (m. 1940, died)​
Children	2
Awards	Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1987)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin
Doctoral advisor	William Freeman Twaddell Roe-Merrill S. Heffner
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Historical linguistics
Institutions	Washington University in St. Louis University of Texas at Austin
Main interests	Germanic linguistics Indo-European linguistics Machine translation
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 ideas	OV / 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.