Wolfgang U. Dressler#
| Membership Number: | 2283 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Head of the Working Group Comparative Psycholinguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- 2010 Deputy Director of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 - 2010 Head of the Austrian Academy Corpus, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1978 - 2008 Director of Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- 1971 - 2008 Full Professor, Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- 1970 - 1971 Associate Professor, Ohio State University/Columbus
- 1970 Lecturer, University of California/Los Angeles
- 1964 - 1969 Assistant, Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Text linguistics
- Child language development
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1977 - 1979 Vice President of the Società di Linguistica Italiana
- 1980 - 1981 President of Societas Linguistica Europaea
- 1992 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
- 1995 Foreign member of the Accademia della Crusca (Florence)
- 2002 Dr.hc, Sorbonne - Paris 5
- 2003 Foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Dr. h.c. University of Athens
- 2012 Foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
