Dieter Kastovsky has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna since 1981, and Director of the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Vienna (1990–2006). His main research interests are English morphology and word-formation (synchronic and diachronic), semantics, history of linguistics, and language typology. His publications include Studies in Morphology. Aspects of English and German verb inflection (Tübingen, 1971), Wortbildung und Semantik (Tübingen/Düsseldorf, 1982), and more recently articles in The Cambridge History of Linguistics and The Handbook of the History of English.