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Otto Jespersen

(Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943)

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish: [ˈʌtsʰo ˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." (From Wikipedia)

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2 additional books about Otto Jespersen in the extended shelves:

Svar til hr. dr. O. Jespersen. (I kommission hos universitetsboghandler G.E.C. Gad, 1892), by Jón Stefánsson (page images at HathiTrust)
Probleme der neuenglischen lautgeschichte. (M. Nieyemer, 1911), by Wilhelm Horn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Books by Otto Jespersen:

Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: International Language and Science: Considerations on the Introduction of an International Language Into Science (London: Constable and Co., 1910), also by Louis Couturat, Richard Lorenz, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Leopold Pfaundler, trans. by F. G. Donnan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: ... Our title & its import; the presidential address for 1920-1, delivered at Bedford College, N.W., May 21, 1921 (Bowes & Bowes, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 17] (s.n., 1897), also by Harold Prell Breitenbach, Richard E. Helbig, Thomas P. Johnson, Clarence Linton Meader, James Rowland Angell, John Hays Gardiner, Mary Elizabeth Laing, Warren Washburn Florer, Charles Horton Cooley, Francis Barton Gummere, Edward Everett Hale, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Ferdinand Brunetière, James Lane Allen, Irving Babbitt, William J. Shearer, Rollo Ogden, A. D. Lindsay, Ernest Sutherland Bates, Arlo Bates, Maurice Maeterlinck, William Warner Bishop, R. M. Wenley, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, John Dewey, Walter Avenel, William Eleroy Curtis, Fred Newton Scott, W. P. Ratigan, C. B. Moulinier, John C. Stevens, William Shakespeare, Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson, Raymond Durbin Miller, Palmer Cobb, James Finch Royster, Oliver Towles, Michigan Schoolmasters' Club. German Section, Boston Public Library, New England Association of Teachers of English, and Rochester Equestres Party (East High School (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Chapters on English (re-printed from "Progress in language") (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1918) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Chapters on English (reprinted from "Progress in language") (Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Dania. (Lybecker & Meyer, 1890), also by Kristoffer Nyrop and Universitets-jubilæets danske samfund (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Danias lydskrift. ([København?, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: De to hovedarter av grammattiske forbindelser. (Andr. Fred. Høst & Søn, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Det engelske sprog, noget af en karakteristik. (1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Die Sprache, ihre Natur, Entwicklung und Entstehung (C. Winter, 1925), also by Karl Waibel and Rudolf Hittmair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Die umgangssprache der Nieder-Lausitz in ihren Lauten. (N.G. Elwert, 1888), also by Felix Franke (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Dr. J. Stefánssons bog om R. Browning : Angreb og forsvac (Klein, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Elementarbuch der phonetik. (B. G. Teubner, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk Begynderbog ... (Schubothe, 1895), also by C. Sarauw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk-dansk-norsk ordbog (Gyldendal, 1923), also by J. Brynildsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk-dansk-norsk ordbog (Gyldendalske boghandel, 1923), also by John Brynildsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk-dansk-norsk ordbog (Gyldendal, 1902), also by J. Brynildsen and Johs. Magnussen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk-Dansk ordbog (Gyldendal, 1929), also by Johs. Magnussen, Hermann Vinterberg, and Otto Madsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk fonetik (Gyldendal, 1912), also by H. Helweg-Møller (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Engelsk fonetik til brug for lærere og studerende (Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1921), also by H. Helweg-Møller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: The England and America reader. (Gyldendal, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: The England and America reader (Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Ergänzungsheft zu Spoken English (O. R. Reisland, 1899), also by Felix Franke (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Ergänzungsheft zu Spoken English. (O.R. Reisland, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Fonetik : en systematisk fremstilling af læren om sproglyd (Schubothe, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Fransk Begynderbog. Anden ... omarbejdede udgave af "Fransk Laasebog efter Lydskriftmetoden." (C. Larsen, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Gengo : sono honshitsu, hattatsu oyobi kigen (Iwanami Shoten, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Growth and structure of the English language (B. G.Teubner, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Growth and structure of the English language. (G.B. Teubner, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Growth and structure of the English language (D. Appleton and company, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Growth and structure of the English language (B. G. Teubner, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Growth and structure of the English language (B.G. Teubner;, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Historio di nia linguo. History of our language. (J.W. Baxter, 1921), also by Gunvar Mönster (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: The history of the English language considered in its relation to other subjects. (Reisland, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language (G. Allen and Unwin, 1923), also by Sophia Yhlen-Olsen Bertelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language (G. Allen & Unwin, 1917), also by Sophia Yhlen-Olsen Bertelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language (Allen & Unwin, 1904), also by Sophia Yhlen-Olsen Bertelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language (Allen & Unwin, 1904), also by Fru Sophia Yhlen Bertelsen (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language (G. Allen, 1912), also by Sophia Yhlen-Olsen Bertelsen (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language (S. Sonnenschein & Co., ltd.;, 1904), also by Fru Sophia Yhlen-Olsen Bertelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: How to teach a foreign language, trans. by Sophia Yhlen-Olsen Bertelsen (Gutenberg ebook)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: International-English dictionary ([s.n.], 1908), also by L. de Beaufront and Louis Couturat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: An international language (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: An international language (W.W. Norton, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: International language and science; considerations on the introduction of an international language into science. (Constable & company, limited, 1910), also by F. G. Donnan, Wilhelm Ostwald, Louis Couturat, Richard Lorenz, and Leopold Pfaundler von Hadermur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: John Hart's pronunciation of English, 1569-1570. (C. Winter, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Kortfattet engelsk grammatik for tale og skriftsproget. (Gyldendal, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Language; its nature, development and origin (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Language; its nature, development and origin (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd.;, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Language : its nature, development and origin (Holt, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Language : its nature, development and origin (Henry Holt and Co., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin (Gutenberg ebook)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Lehrbuch der phonetik. (B. G. Teubner, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Lehrbuch der Phonetik (B.G. Teubner, 1904), also by Hermann Davidsen and Hermann Christian Davidsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Lehrbuch der Phonetik (B.G. Teubner, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Logic & grammar (The Clarendon press, 1924), also by William Henry Stevenson and David MacRitchie (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Mankind, nation and individual from a linguistic point of view. (H. Aschehoug & co.;, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Menneskehed, nasjon og individ i sproget, av Otto Jespersen. (H. Aschehoug & co. (W. Nygaard);, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: A modern English grammar on historical principles. (C. Winter, 1909), also by Niels Haislund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: A modern English grammar on historical principles (C. Winter, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: A modern English grammar on historical principles (C. Winter, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: A modern English grammar on historical principles. (C. Winter, 1927), also by Niels Haislund (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Modersmålets fonetik (Schuboth, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Modersmålets fonetik. (Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Modersmalets fonetik, anden udvidede og gennemsigtede udgave. (Gyldendalske boghandel, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Negation in English and other languages. (Kgl. Danske videnskabernes selskab, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Negation in English and other languages. (A. F. Høst, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Nutidssprog Hos börn og voxne. (Nordisk forlag, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Om subtraktionsdannelser, særligt på dansk og engelsk ([København?, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: The philosophy of grammar (G. Allen ;, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: The philosophy of grammar (H. Holt, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: The philosophy of grammar (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd.;, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Phonetic transcription and transliteration, proposals of the Copenhagen conference, April, 1925. (The Clarendon press, 1926), also by Holger Pederson (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Phonetische Grundfragen (B.G. Teubner, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Progress in language : with special reference to English (S. Sonnenschein & co.;, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Progress in language ; with special reference to English (S. Sonnenschein & Co.;, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Rasmus Rask : i hundredåret efter hans hovedværk (Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Spoken English. : Everyday talk, with phonetic transcription, (O. R. Reisland, 1897), also by Felix Franke and E. Th True (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Spoken English. : Everyday talk, with phonetic transcription, (O. R. Reisland, 1920), also by Felix Franke and E. Th True (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Spoken English; everyday talk with phonetic transcription (O.R. Reisland, 1904), also by E. Th True (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Spoken English; everyday talk with phonetic transcription (O.R. Reisland, 1899), also by E. Th True (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Spoken English, everyday talk with phonetik transcription. (Leipzig, 1895), also by E. Th True (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Sprogundervisning ... (Det Schubotheske forlag, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Større engelsk grammatik på historisk grundlag (Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Studier over engelske kasus (Kleins Forlag, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Weltsprache und Wissenschaft : Gedanken über die Einführung der internationalen Hilfssprache in die Wissenschaft (G. Fischer, 1913), also by Leopold Pfaundler von Hadermur, Wilhelm Ostwald, Richard Lorenz, and Louis Couturat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943: Zur Lautgesetzfrage. (J.A. Barth, etc., etc., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)

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