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Winfred Philip Lehmann

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American linguist

United StatesWritersLived 1916 to 2007 · aged 91
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Winfred Philip Lehmann was an American linguist who specialized in historical, Germanic, and Indo-European linguistics.

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Guggenheim Fellowship
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fulbright Scholarship

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Winfred Philip Lehmann 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.

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Lived 1916 to 2007 · aged 91
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