Otto Jespersen

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Otto Jespersen


Born
in Randers, Denmark
July 16, 1860

Died
April 30, 1943


Average rating: 3.93 · 149 ratings · 21 reviews · 217 distinct worksSimilar authors
Growth and Structure of the...

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Language

4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1922 — 69 editions
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The Philosophy of Grammar

4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1924 — 31 editions
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Essentials of English Grammar

3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1933 — 34 editions
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International Language

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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How to Teach a Foreign Lang...

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Mankind, Nation and Individual

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Progress in Language, with ...

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A Modern English Grammar on...

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Negation in English and oth...

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“Man is a classifying animal: in one sense it may be said that the whole process of speaking is nothing but distributing phenomena, of which no two are alike in every respect, into different classes on the strength of perceived similarities and dissimilarities. In the name-giving process we witness the same ineradicable and very useful tendency to see likenesses and to express similarity in the phenomena through similarity in name.
— Otto Jespersen
Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin (1922)”
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