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Chapters on English: Re-Printed From 'Progress in Language'. E-book. Formato PDF
Otto Jespersen
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
When the publishers told me that a reprint of Progress in Language with Special Reference to English (1894, second edition - practically without any changes, in 1909) was again called for, I thought it not advisable to issue the book once more in its former shape. It has always been to some extent prejudicial to the...
Negation in English and Other Languages. E-book. Formato PDF
Otto Jespersen
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The history of negative expressions in various languages makes us witness the following curious ?uctuation: the original negative adverb is first weakened, then found insufficient and therefore strengthened, generally through some additional word, and this in its turn may be felt as the negative proper and may then...
The Articulations of Speech Sounds: Represented by Means of Analphabetic Symbols. E-book. Formato PDF
Otto Jespersen
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
I must here apologize for a few inaccuracies in the references to paragraphs; when the work was already half through the press, [shortened considerably the last section of it, cutting out especially my analysis of many diphthongs as being, perhaps, of too precarious a nature.
Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin. E-book. Formato PDF
Otto Jespersen
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
KZ Kuhn's Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Sprachforschung. Lasch S R. Lasch, Sondersprachen u. Ihre Entstehung, Wien 1907. Lph O. Jespersen, Lehrbuch der Phonetik, 3te Au? Leipzig 1920. Madvig 1857 J. N. Madvig, De grammatische Betegnelser, Copenhagen 1857. K1 Kleine philologische Schriften, Leipzig 1875. Me. Middle...
Progress in Language: With Special Reference to English. E-book. Formato PDF
Otto Jespersen
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Ifi am right in my interpretation of the tendencies of recent philology, the answer cannot be doubtful; but there is as little doubt that this answer will be the exact opposite of what an older generation Of linguists would have given as their verdict. It may therefore be of some interest to examine more closely the...