This volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen's papers in English, German, and French, which he himself felt should be presented to an international public. This title gives a picture of Jespersen's development and endeavours as a linguist, and covers a wide time period of his career. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and foreign language study.

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Linguistica (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Papers in English, French and German
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Grammar & PunctuationTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Farewell Lecture (1925)
- 2. Karl Verner (1897)
- 3. L'Étude de la langue maternelle en Danemark
- 4. Zur geschichte der älteren phonetik
- 5. Presidential Address (MHRA 1920)
- 6. Energetik der sprache (1914)
- 7. Compte rendu du Cours de F. de Saussure (1916)
- 8. L'individu et la communauté (1927)
- 9. Wesen und system der sprachlaute (1904)
- 10. Zur lautgesetzfrage. A. (1886)
- 11. Verners gesetz und das wesen des akzents (1933)
- 12. Notes on Metre (1900)
- 13. Adversative Conjunctions (1918)
- 14. Symbolic Value of the Vowel I (1922)
- 15. The System of Grammar (1933)
- 16. Voiced and Voiceless Fricatives in English (1891; 1932)
- 17. Monosyllabism in English (1928)
- 18. Veiled Language (1929)
- 19. A Supposed Feminine Ending (1927)
- 20. A Marginal Note on Shakespeare's Language and a Textual Crux in King Lear (1916)
- 21. Nature and Art in Language (1929)
- Index
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