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From: benli...@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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Subject: Otto Jespersen died (30-4-1943)
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by: Ross Clark - Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:23 UTC

If I may quote from my 2018 observance of his birthday:

July 16 - Otto Jespersen (1860)
I bought his "Growth and Structure of the English Language" (1905)
from the same guy who sold me Sapir's Language (1921), both great books
still in print decades after their first appearance. Late in life I
acquired his seven-volume historical grammar of Modern English. But his
interests ranged very widely; the titles "Language: Its Nature,
Development and Origin" and "Mankind, Nation and Individual from a
Linguistic Point of View" give some idea. Also an enthusiast for
international auxiliary languages (Ido, Novial).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen

Crystal thinks Jespersen was the first linguist to publish a full
autobiography (A Linguist's Life, 1938), and that it is a very good
read. I think I have read it, and I think I agree. Trouble is, I
sometimes get him confused with a near-contemporary Danish linguist,
Holger Pedersen (1867-1953), perhaps most famous for coining the name
"Nostratic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Pedersen_(linguist)

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by: Athel Cornish-Bowden - Thu, 2 May 2024 08:56 UTC

On 2024-04-30 09:23:32 +0000, Ross Clark said:

> If I may quote from my 2018 observance of his birthday:

No one will care in the slightest about this, but Jesperson died on the
day on which my in-laws were married.
>
> July 16 - Otto Jespersen (1860)
> I bought his "Growth and Structure of the English Language" (1905)
> from the same guy who sold me Sapir's Language (1921), both great books
> still in print decades after their first appearance. Late in life I
> acquired his seven-volume historical grammar of Modern English. But his
> interests ranged very widely; the titles "Language: Its Nature,
> Development and Origin" and "Mankind, Nation and Individual from a
> Linguistic Point of View" give some idea. Also an enthusiast for
> international auxiliary languages (Ido, Novial).
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen
>
> Crystal thinks Jespersen was the first linguist to publish a full
> autobiography (A Linguist's Life, 1938), and that it is a very good
> read. I think I have read it, and I think I agree. Trouble is, I
> sometimes get him confused with a near-contemporary Danish linguist,
> Holger Pedersen (1867-1953), perhaps most famous for coining the name
> "Nostratic".
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Pedersen_(linguist)

--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
in England until 1987.

Subject	Author
Otto Jespersen died (30-4-1943)	Ross Clark
Re: Otto Jespersen died (30-4-1943)	Athel Cornish-Bowden