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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Otto Jespersen''' {{IPA|[ʌtˢo ˈjɛsb̥ɐsn̩]}}(July 16, 1860 - April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the [[English language|English]] language.<br />
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===Life===<br />
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Jespersen was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, [[French language|French]], and [[Latin]]. He also studied linguistics at Oxford. Jespersen was a professor of English at Copenhagen University from 1893 to 1925. <br />
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Along with [[Paul Passy]], he was a founder of the [[International Phonetic Association]]. He was a vocal supporter and active developer of artificial international languages. He was also involved in the delegation that created the artificial language [[Ido]] and he later developed the [[Novial language]], which he considered an improvement.<br />
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He advanced the theories of ''Rank'' and ''Nexus'' in Danish in two papers: ''Sprogets logik'' (1913) and ''De to hovedarter af grammatiske forbindelser'' (1921). Jespersen in this theory of ranks removes the parts of speech from the syntax, and differentiates between primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries; e.g. in "''well honed phrase''," "phrase" is a primary, this being defined by a secondary, "honed", which again is defined by a tertiary "well". The term ''Nexus'' is applied to sentences, structures similar to sentences and sentences in formation, in which two concepts are expressed in one unit; e.g., ''it rained, he ran indoors''. This term is qualified by a further concept called a ''junction'' which represents one idea, expressed by means of two or more elements, whereas a nexus combines two ideas. Junction and nexus proved valuable in bringing the concept of context to the forefront of the attention of the world of linguistics.<br />
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He was most widely recognized for some of his books. His <cite>Modern English Grammar</cite> concentrated on morphology and syntax. His <cite>Growth and Structure of the English Language</cite> is a comprehensive view of English by someone with another native language, and still in print, over 60 years after his death and nearly 100 years after publication. Late in his life he published ''Analytic Syntax'', in which he presents his views on syntactic structure using an idiosyncratic shorthand notation.<br />
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More than once Otto Jespersen was invited to the U.S. as a guest lecturer, and he took occasion to study the country's educational system. His autobiography (see below) was published in English translation as recently as 1995. <br />
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Jespersen was a proponent of [[phonosemantics|phonosemanticism]] and wrote: “Is there really much more logic in the opposite extreme which denies any kind of [[sound symbolism]] (apart from the small class of evident echoisms and ‘[[onomatopoeia]]’) and sees in our words only a collection of accidental and irrational associations of sound and meaning? ...There is no denying that there are words which we feel instinctively to be adequate to express the ideas they<br />
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===Works===<br />
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* 1889: ''The articulations of speech sounds represented by means of analphabetic symbols''. Marburg: Elwert.<br />
* 1905: ''Growth and Structure of the English Language'' (ISBN 0-226-39877-3)<br />
* 1909ff: ''A Modern English Grammar'' (in seven volumes; the title should be understood as 'A grammar of Modern English') (ISBN 0-06-493318-0)<br />
* 1922: [http://us.geocities.com/idojc/jesplanguage.html ''Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin''] (ISBN 0-04-400007-3)<br />
* 1924: ''The Philosophy of Grammar'' (ISBN 0-226-39881-1)<br />
* 1928: [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/AIL.html ''An International Language''] (the introduction of the [[Novial language]])<br />
* 1930: [http://www.blahedo.org/novial/nl.html ''Novial Lexike''] Novial to English, French and German dictionary.<br />
* 1937: ''Analytic Syntax'' (ISBN 0-226-39880-3)<br />
* 1938: ''En sprogmands levned'', Copenhagen, Jespersen's autobiography<br />
* 1995: ''A Linguist's Life'': an English translation of Otto Jespersen's autobiography ... edited by Arne Juul [et al.]. Odense (ISBN 87-7838-132-0)<br />
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'''Otto Jespersen''' {{IPA|[ʌtˢo ˈjɛsb̥ɐsn̩]}} (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the [[English language|English]] language.<br />
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===Life===<br />
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Jespersen was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, [[French language|French]], and [[Latin]]. He also studied linguistics at Oxford. Jespersen was a professor of English at Copenhagen University from 1893 to 1925. <br />
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Along with [[Paul Passy]], he was a founder of the [[International Phonetic Association]]. He was a vocal supporter and active developer of artificial international languages such as [[Esperanto]]. He was also involved in the delegation that created the artificial language [[Ido]] and he later developed the [[Novial language]], which he considered an improvement.<br />
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He advanced the theories of ''Rank'' and ''Nexus'' in Danish in two papers: ''Sprogets logik'' (1913) and ''De to hovedarter af grammatiske forbindelser'' (1921). Jespersen in this theory of ranks removes the parts of speech from the syntax, and differentiates between primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries; e.g. in "''well honed phrase''," "phrase" is a primary, this being defined by a secondary, "honed", which again is defined by a tertiary "well". The term ''Nexus'' is applied to sentences, structures similar to sentences and sentences in formation, in which two concepts are expressed in one unit; e.g., ''it rained, he ran indoors''. This term is qualified by a further concept called a ''junction'' which represents one idea, expressed by means of two or more elements, whereas a nexus combines two ideas. Junction and nexus proved valuable in bringing the concept of context to the forefront of the attention of the world of linguistics.<br />
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He was most widely recognized for some of his books. His <cite>Modern English Grammar</cite> concentrated on morphology and syntax. His <cite>Growth and Structure of the English Language</cite> is a comprehensive view of English by someone with another native language, and still in print, over 60 years after his death and nearly 100 years after publication. Late in his life he published ''Analytic Syntax'', in which he presents his views on syntactic structure using an idiosyncratic shorthand notation.<br />
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More than once Otto Jespersen was invited to the U.S. as a guest lecturer, and he took occasion to study the country's educational system. His autobiography (see below) was published in English translation as recently as 1995. <br />
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Jespersen was a proponent of [[phonosemantics|phonosemanticism]] and wrote: “Is there really much more logic in the opposite extreme which denies any kind of [[sound symbolism]] (apart from the small class of evident echoisms and ‘[[onomatopoeia]]’) and sees in our words only a collection of accidental and irrational associations of sound and meaning? ...There is no denying that there are words which we feel instinctively to be adequate to express the ideas they<br />
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===Works===<br />
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* 1889: ''The articulations of speech sounds represented by means of analphabetic symbols''. Marburg: Elwert.<br />
* 1905: ''Growth and Structure of the English Language'' (ISBN 0-226-39877-3)<br />
* 1909ff: ''A Modern English Grammar'' (in seven volumes; the title should be understood as 'A grammar of Modern English') (ISBN 0-06-493318-0)<br />
* 1922: [http://us.geocities.com/idojc/jesplanguage.html ''Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin''] (ISBN 0-04-400007-3)<br />
* 1924: ''The Philosophy of Grammar'' (ISBN 0-226-39881-1)<br />
* 1928: [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/AIL.html ''An International Language''] (the introduction of the [[Novial language]])<br />
* 1930: [http://www.blahedo.org/novial/nl.html ''Novial Lexike''] Novial to English, French and German dictionary.<br />
* 1937: ''Analytic Syntax'' (ISBN 0-226-39880-3)<br />
* 1938: ''En sprogmands levned'', Copenhagen, Jespersen's autobiography<br />
* 1995: ''A Linguist's Life'': an English translation of Otto Jespersen's autobiography ... edited by Arne Juul [et al.]. Odense (ISBN 87-7838-132-0)<br />
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