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The Philosophy of Grammar Otto Jespersen

The Philosophy of Grammar By Otto Jespersen

The Philosophy of Grammar by Otto Jespersen


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The Philosophy of Grammar by Otto Jespersen

This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia University in 1909-10, called An Introduction to English Grammar. It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general principles of grammar based on years of studying various languages through both direct observation of living speech and written and printed documents. [The Philosophy of Grammar and Analytic Syntax] set forth the most extensive and original theory of universal grammar prior to the work of Chomsky and other generative grammarians of the last thirty years.--Arne Juul and Hans F. Nielsen, in Otto Jespersen: Facets of His Life and Work Besides being one of the most perceptive observers and original thinkers that the field of linguistics has ever known, Jespersen was also one of its most entertaining writers, and reading The Philosophy of Grammar is fun. Read it, enjoy it.--James D. McCawley, from the Introduction Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), an authority on the growth and structure of language, was the Chair of the English Department at the University of Copenhagen. Among his many works are A Modern English Grammar and Analytic Syntax, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

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CIN0226398811G
9780226398815
0226398811
The Philosophy of Grammar by Otto Jespersen
Used - Good
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
19921115
372
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