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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 First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This classic text presents the chief facts of English grammar, giving the student a real insight into the structure of the language. Grammatical rules are laid out in a clear, concise way and are illustrated with carefully selected examples. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. INTRODUCTORY II. SOUNDS III. EVOLUTION OF THE SOUND-SYSTEM IV. EVOLUTION OF THE SOUND-SYSTEM V. EVOLUTION OF THE SOUND-SYSTEM VI. SPELLING VII. WORD-CLASSES VIII. THE THREE RANKS IX. JUNCTION AND NEXUS X. SENTENCE-STRUCTURE XI. RELATIONS OF VERB TO SUBJECT AND OBJECT XII. PASSIVE XIII. PREDICATIVES XIV. CASE XV. PERSON XVI. DEFINITE PRONOUNS XVII. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS XVIII. PRONOUNS OF TOTALITY XIX. GENDER XX. NUMBER XXI. NUMBER XXII. DEGREE XXIII. TENSE XXIV. TENSE XXV. WILL AND SHALL XXVI. WOULD AND SHOULD XXVII. MOOD XXVIII. AFFIRMATION, NEGATION, QUESTION XXIX. DEPENDENT NEXUS XXX. NEXUS-SUBSTANTIVES XXXI. THE GERUND XXXII. THE INFINITIVE XXXIII. CLAUSES AS PRIMARIES XXXIV. CLAUSES AS SECONDARIES XXXV. CLAUSES AS TERTIARIES XXXVI. RETROSPECT...
