Wolfgang U. Dressler (b. Vienna 1939) is a researcher at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and professor emeritus of Vienna University, head of the Working Group of Comparative Psycholinguistics at its Dept. of Linguistics. He earned a PhD in Classical Philology and Linguistics at Vienna University, postgraduate at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne, Dozent at Vienna University, lecturer at UCLA, Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, Full Professor of Linguistics at Vienna University, Director of its Dept. of Linguistics; he (co)published nearly 700 books, volumes and articles, spanning Indo-European linguistics, text and discourse linguistics, neurolinguistics, Natural Phonology and Morphology (incl. morphonology, morphonotactics, morphopragmatics), monolingual plus simultaneous and successive bilingual child language acquisition, poetic occasionalisms. He is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, the Societas Linguistica Europaea, the Cercle Linguistique de Prague, plusr member of the Société de linguistique de Paris, the Società di Linguistica Italiana, the Deutsche Sprachgesellschaft, Dr. h.c. of the Sorbonne, the Unviversity of Athens and the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan), full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, member of the Accademia Europaea, the Academies of Denmark, Hungary, Norway, the Accademia della Crusca (Florence), the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome).