Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943
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- Universitets-jubilæets danske samfund, Copenhagen. Dania ...
- Yü fa che hsüeh, 1988:t.p. (Ao-tʻo Yeh-ssu-po-sen) p. 1, 2nd group, etc. (Danish linguist; Otto Jespersen [in rom.]; b. 7-16-1860, Randers, Denmark; Ph. D., Oxford Univ.; d. 4-30-1943, Roskilde, Denmark)
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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 language. Steven Mithen described him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
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