Jonathan Slocum, Interim Director :: PCL 5.112, 1 University Station S5490 :: Austin, TX 78712 :: 512-471-4566
Winfred P. Lehmann
In Memoriam
Born June 23, 1916 in Surprise, Nebraska
Married to Ruth Preston Lehmann, Ph.D. (deceased)
Died August 1, 2007 in Austin, Texas
Educational Background
- 1941 Ph.D., Germanic Linguistics, University of Wisconsin
- 1938 M.A., Germanic Linguistics, University of Wisconsin
- 1936 B.A., Humanities, Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin
Professional Career
- University of Texas at Austin:
- 1986-2007: Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor Emeritus in the Humanities
- 1983-1986: Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities
- 1951-1986: Doctoral dissertations directed: approximately fifty
- 1963-1983: Ashbel Smith Professor of Linguistics and Germanic Languages
- 1951-1962: Professor of Germanic Languages
- 1949-1951: Associate Professor of Germanic Languages
- 1946-1949: Washington University, Department of German, Instructor, Assistant Professor
- 1942-1946: Army Signal Corps, Instructor in Japanese and Officer-in-Charge of Japanese Language School
Administrative Positions at the University of Texas
- 1961-2007: Director, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
- 1964-1972: Chairman, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
- 1953-1964: Chairman, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin
Academic Appointments and Honors
- 1995: Doctor of Humane Letters (h.c.), The University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1991: Workshop on machine translation at Tsinghua University, Beijing
- 1987: Pro bene meritis award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
- 1986-1988: Founding Editor, Computers and Translation (now: Machine Translation)
- 1985: Doctor of Letters (h.c.), State University of New York, Binghamton
- 1983: Harry Huntt Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence in the Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
- 1976: Professor and Associate Director, Linguistic Institute, State University of New York, Oswego
- 1972-1973: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1968: Collitz Professor, Linguistic Institute, University of Illinois
- 1954: Professor, Linguistic Institute, University of Chicago
International Academic Appointments and Honors
- 1987: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany: Commander's Cross
- 1981: Nehru Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, India
- 1981: Co-Chairman, Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences to the People's Republic of China
- 1979: UNESCO Comité de coordination pour les études interculturelles
- 1978: Guest of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, with lectures in universities and research institutes
- 1975-2007: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
- 1974: Brüder-Grimm Preis, University of Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1974: Chairman, Linguistics Delegation to People's Republic of China
- 1972: Guest of the Federal Republic of Germany as a member of a linguistic group (three weeks)
- 1969-2007: Corresponding Fellow, Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1964, summer: Professor, University of Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1955-1956: Director, Georgetown English Language Program, Ankara, Turkey
- 1950-1951: Fulbright Research Fellowship to Norway
Selected Professional Societies
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow)
- American Oriental Society
- Association for Computational Linguistics; President 1964
- Linguistic Society of America; President 1973
- Modern Language Association of America; Executive Council 1977-1981, 2nd Vice President 1985,1st Vice-President 1986, President 1987
- South-Central Modern Language Association; President 1982
Selected Non-university Activities
- 1984-2007: Subcommission on Literature and Language, American Council of Learned Societies--Soviet Academy of Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 1983-1986: Commission on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Modern Language Association of America
- 1985: Conference on Machine Translation, Riyadh
- 1980-1982: Committee on an Assessment of Quality-Related Characteristics of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States
- 1979-1986: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Educational Advisory Board
- 1974-1978: Center for Applied Linguistics, Board of Trustees, Chairman
- 1972-1986: American Council of Learned Societies, Board of Directors, Secretary
Selected Publications
- 1981: Syntactic Typology (ed.) Austin: University of Texas Press. xiv, 463 pp. Essays by self included:
Chapter 1. The Great Underlying Groundplans (3-55);
Chapter 4. English: A Characteristic SVO Language (169-222);
Chapter 8. Towards an Understanding of the Profound Unity Underlying Languages (395-432). - 1992: Historical Linguistics. 3rd ed. London: Routledge. xviii, 288 pp.
- 1993: Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics. London: Routledge. xii, 324 pp.
- 2002: Pre-Indo-European. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 41. Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man. xvi, 287 pp.
Publications Grouped by Category
- Books and special issues of journals
- Articles and essays:
- Reviews:
For additional details see one of the following: Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the South and the Southwest, Wer ist Was in der Sprachwissenschaft.