Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish: [ˈʌtsʰo ˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English...
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Hans Otto Jespersen (born 21 July 1954) is a Norwegian comedian, actor and television personality. He starred as the title role of the 2010 film Trollhunter...
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Karen Jespersen (born 1947), Danish politician Knud Jespersen (1926–77), Danish politician Mogens Jespersen (born 1949), Danish soccer player Otto Jespersen...
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an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen in 1928. It was designed to facilitate human communication between speakers...
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relatively unknown actors and well-known Norwegian comedians, including Otto Jespersen, Trollhunter received positive reviews from Norwegian critics. It opened...
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loss of the original pre-verbal marker. The pattern was formulated in Otto Jespersen's 1917 book Negation in English and Other Languages, and named after...
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represent pronunciations. The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who coined the term. The...
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languages as it has existed for more than a century. Formalised by Otto Jespersen in 1931 as the science of interlanguages, in more recent times, the...
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1842) and "Whisper, timid breathing" (Шепот, робкое дыханье, 1850). Otto Jespersen observed that the absence of verbs can give "a very definite impression...
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upon by an independent clause. The term was coined by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen. Content clauses are also known as noun clauses. In English, there are...
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linguist Otto Jespersen and published in 1890 in the Dania, Tidsskrift for folkemål og folkeminder magazine from which the system was named. Jespersen led...
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of its most influential proponents, Louis Couturat. In 1928, leader Otto Jespersen left the movement for his own language Novial. Ido declined in popularity...
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occur when a speaker follows "a natural speech instinct", according to Otto Jespersen and Robert J. Menner. Hypercorrection can be found among speakers of...
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Golden Hans Morten Hansen Harald Heide-Steen jr. Espen Beranek Holm Otto Jespersen Bård Tufte Johansen Leif Juster Are Kalvø Trond Kirkvaag Knut Lystad...
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for his participation in the TV2 show Rikets Røst, which is hosted by Otto Jespersen. After the publicity this show resulted in, he has become a popular...
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while, and unless, which take a clausal complement. But since at least Otto Jespersen (see English prepositions for the historical development of the idea)...
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However, the following informal or dialectal options have been used: Otto Jespersen calls amn't "unpronounceable": 120 and Eric Partridge calls it "ugly"...
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Antoine Meillet Recherches sur le génitif-accusatif en vieux slave (1898) Otto Jespersen, Growth and Structure of the English Language (1906) Albert Cuny twice:...
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equivalent usus was a crucial term in the research of Danish linguists Otto Jespersen and Louis Hjelmslev. They used the term to designate usage that has...
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Internet. In 1928 Ido's major intellectual supporter, the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, abandoned Ido, and published his own planned language, Novial. It was...
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Golimo Marcus Brodersen Starring Anders Baasmo Christiansen Sven Nordin Otto Jespersen Jenny Skavlan Henrik Mestad Ida Husøy Trond Halbo Cinematography Askild...
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generally a sign of a more linguistically oriented prosodist at work. Otto Jespersen introduced his numeric notation in 1900 (in Danish; English translation...
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is uncommon. Two examples of this type were developed by the Danish Otto Jespersen (1889) and American Kenneth Pike (1943). Pike's system, which is part...
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the latter's "redundant" letters: e.g. be/bee, in/inn, I/eye, to/two. Otto Jespersen suggested the short spelling was a marker of reduced stress. Content...
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historical principles is a seven-volume grammar of English written by Otto Jespersen. The first volume ("part"), Sounds and Spellings, was published in 1909;...
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sophisticated naturalistic IAL, also known as Occidental. Novial nov 1928 Otto Jespersen Another sophisticated naturalistic IAL by a famous Danish linguist....
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otherwise the objective is used. While grammarians such as Henry Sweet and Otto Jespersen noted that the English cases did not correspond to the traditional Latin-based...
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the Polish linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen with having sowed the seeds of the movement. Mathesius built up functionalism...
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The party has also been listing famous people, including comedian Otto Jespersen and bishop Øystein I. Larsen, for local and national election against...
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needed] In the late 19th and early 20th century, Wilhelm Wundt and Otto Jespersen responded to these earlier arguments, arguing that their view of language...
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