em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult.

Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler

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(+43 1) 51581 – 2201

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wolfgang.dressler(at)univie.ac.at

Guest researcher Dr. Dr. hc.mult. Wolfgang U. Dressler, is an em. Prof. of linguistics (University of Vienna) and a member of the Austrian and 5 other Academies of Sciences. He was born in 1939 in Vienna. He studied in Vienna, Rome, and Paris and taught at several North American and European universities. He is now working mainly on theoretical and German morphology, early language acquisition, and corpus linguistics. He has published more than 500 books, volumes, and articles.

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  • Dressler, Wolfgang U., Elisa Mattiello, and Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun. 2023. Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives. In Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains, eds. S. Manova, L. Grestenberger,, and K. Korecky-Kröll, 335-362. Trends In Linguistics. Studies And Monographs (Tilsm). Berlin: de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110792874-014.
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  • Dressler, Wolfgang U., and Jutta Ransmayr. 2023. Diminutive variation in Austrian German: a corpuslinguistic study. In Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains, eds. S. Manova, L. Grestenberger,, and K. Korecky-Kröll, 363-386. Trends In Linguistics. Studies And Monographs (Tilsm). Berlin: de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110792874-015.
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  • Martina Werner,, and Wolfgang U. Dressler, eds. 2023. Between derivation and inflection. Veröffentlichungen Zur Linguistik Und Kommunikationsforschung. ÖAW-Verlag.
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  • Sommer-Lolei, Sabine, and Wolfgang U. Dressler. 2023. First-language acquisition of agent and instrument nouns in German as (non-)prototypical derivational categories. In Between Derivation and Inflection, eds. M. Werner and Dressler, W. U., 231-260. Veröffentlichungen Zur Linguistik Und Kommunikationsforschung (Vormals Veröffentlichungen Der Kommission Für Linguistik Und Kommunikationsforschung). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. doi:10.1553/978OEAW93470.
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  • Dressler, Wolfgang U., Anastasia Christofidou, Natalia Gagarina, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, and Marianne Kilani-Schoch. 2023. Blind Alley Developments (BADs): in defense of our approach. Italian Journal of Linguistics 35: 231-240.
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  • Kolb, Waltraud, Wolfgang U. Dressler, and Elisa Mattiello. 2023. Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts. Johann Nestroy's Der Talisman and its English translations. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 35: 540-572. doi:10.1075/target.21147.kol.
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