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Informationen zum Autor Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, a Danish linguist, specializing in English grammar. Steven Mithen referred to him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Otto Jespersen was born in Randers, Jutland. As a kid, he was attracted by the work of Danish philologist Rasmus Rask, and he taught himself Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish using Rask's grammar. He enrolled in the University of Copenhagen in 1877 at the age of 17, originally studying law but also learning languages. In 1881, he changed his entire concentration to languages, and in 1887, he received his master's degree in French, with English and Latin as secondary languages. In June 1886, Jespersen joined the International Phonetic Association, which was then known as The Phonetic Teachers' Association. In fact, in a letter to Paul Passy, Jespersen proposed the notion of constructing a phonetic alphabet that could be utilized by all languages. From 1887 to 1888, he visited England, Germany, and France, where he met linguists like as Henry Sweet and Paul Passy and attended lectures at universities such as Oxford. On the recommendation of his professor Vilhelm Thomsen, he returned to Copenhagen in August 1888 to begin work on his PhD dissertation on the English case system. He successfully defended his dissertation in 1891. Klappentext This book was first published in 1954. Zusammenfassung This book was first published in 1954. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introductory 2. Simple nexus as ordinary object 3. Simple nexus as object of result 4. Various remarks on nexus-objects 5. Simple nexus as regimen of a preposition 6. A simple nexus as tertiary 7. Nexus-substantives 8. The gerund. Substantive nature 9. The gerund. Verbal nature 10. The infinitive 11. The infinitive. Subject and predicative 12. Infinitive as object 13. To-infinitive as object 14. Infinitive governed by prepositions 15. The infinitive as tertiary 16. The infinitive as tertiary 17. Infinitives of reaction and specification 18. Subject + infinitive as object of main verb 19. Subject + infinitive in other employments 20. Final remarks on infinitives 21. Clauses as tertiaries 22. Implied dependent nexus 23. Negation 14. Requests 15. Questions...
