Winfred P. Lehmann (born 23 June, 1916 in Surprise, Nebraska) is a historical linguist who has served as the director of the Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin since 1961.

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 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 0941694828.
• 1993. Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415082013.
• 1992. Historical Linguistics 3rd ed. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415072433.
• 1974. Proto-Indo-European Syntax Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. ISBN 0292764197
  • 1st ed, 1962

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• Winfred P. Lehmann

American linguists | Historical linguists | Indo-Europeanists