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	Jespersen, Otto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Otto Jespersen es anke la nomo di famoza Norvegiana komediisto.
		Otto Jespersen (16 di julio 1860 - 30 aprilo 1943) esis Dana linguisto di qua la specaleso esis la gramatiko dil Angla linguo.
		Jespersen esis profesoro dil Angla che Kobenhavn-Universitato de 1893 til 1925.
	ido.encyclopedia.st /Jespersen,_Otto (582 words)

	Otto Jespersen (comedian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otto Jespersen is a Norwegian comedian and satirist.
		In 1992 Jespersen, Holmer and Halvorsen teamed up for in The Show - storbymoro for enslige i Utkant-Norge on national television.
		Jespersen is a honorary member of SOS Rasisme and formerly a member of Red Youth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Jespersen_(comedian) (416 words)

	Otto Jespersen
		Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was born on 16 July, 1860, in the town of Randers in Jutland.
		Jespersen' father died in 1870, and his mother with all her children moved to Hillerød, but she, too, died before all the children had grown up.
		In 1899 Otto Jespersen was elected a member of the Danish Videnskabernes Selskab, and later he has become a member of many academies and scientific associations.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/5037/haislund.html (3549 words)

	Comedian hit by death threats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Comedian Otto Jespersen, whose cruel brand of humor has set off a national debate, was the target of death threats before his TV show Thursday evening.
		Otto Jespersen has been in the subject of heated debate the past week.
		Jespersen also had suggested that the only way to get rid of Bondevik was to invite to Norway the man tied to the assassination of Sweden's late prime minister Olof Palme.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article428424.ece?service=print (344 words)

	Police question comedian over flag-burning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Otto Jespersen (right) stars in a weekly talk show that's meant to be funny on TV2.
		Jespersen also has poked fun at a host of local celebrities and politicians and stirred outrage last autumn when he made fun of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik's personal struggle with depression.
		Jespersen said later he was simply trying to reflect extreme views.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article524822.ece?service=print (333 words)

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		The famous Danish linguist was born on 16 July, 1860, in the town of Randers in Jutland.
		In 1886 Jespersen and other Scandinavian scholars and teachers (among them Lundell) founded a Scandinavian association in order to reform the teaching of languages.
		Jespersen's book Fonetik (1897-99) is one of the principal works within classical phonetics.
	www.uni-mainz.de /FB/Philologie-II/fb1413/elearning_phonetics/Jespersen_biosketch.htm (233 words)

	Otto Jespersen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the Norwegian comedian, see Otto Jespersen (comedian).
		Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen [ʌtˢo ˈjɛsb̥ɐsn̩] (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.
		Jespersen was a proponent of phonosemanticism and wrote: “Is there really much more logic in the opposite extreme which denies any kind of sound symbolism (apart from the small class of evident echoisms and ‘onomatopoeia’) and sees in our words only a collection of accidental and irrational associations of sound and meaning?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Jespersen (539 words)

	Novial '98
		Our aim is to leave it as close to Jespersen's original language (as presented in An International Language" and "Novial Lexike") as possible, but to fix up some problematic or difficult areas, increase the vocabulary, and ultimately present it to the world as an international auxiliary language.
		Nusen eme es ke le rester tam proxi a li originali lingue de Jespersen (kom prisentat in An International Language e Novial Lexike) kam posibli, ma ke unesmim nus reparar problemosi o desfasili lokes, kreskar li vordesie, e finalim prisentar le a li monde kom internationali auxiliari lingue.
		Jespersen had -aro, which we felt could be too easily confused with the other suffixes -arie and -ari, and also ended in -o, which is only to be used for masculine nouns.
	www.blahedo.org /novial/novial98.html (2887 words)

	Otto Jespersen -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A linguist and a foremost authority on English grammar, Otto Jespersen helped to revolutionize language teaching in Europe.
		American football player Otto Graham was nicknamed Automatic Otto for his consistently outstanding play as quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
		The 19th-century German novelist, playwright, and critic Otto Ludwig is best known for his realistic stories, which contributed to the development of the German short narrative form known as the novelle.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043573 (679 words)

	BuzzMachine:
		As for Jespersen: he should be fired, but not imprisoned.
		Jespersen's act sounds both unfunny and unenlightening, though not particularly horrifying to me given how much of that I've seen going around lately even from people I generally respect...
		And, Otto Jespersen's normally very cool, but I agree, this wasn't funny.
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	Gender Styles in Computer Meditated Communication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1922, Otto Jespersen published the very first piece in modern linguistics concerning "women's language." In his book he devotes an entire chapter entitled, "The Woman," to describing differences in women's compared to men's speech and voice pitch.
		Jespersen attributes these differences to the early division of labor between the sexes.
		Perhaps Jespersen was predicting the very speech styles that sociolinguists today are studying.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/githens/otto1922.htm (179 words)

	Denmark - Official Denmark - Language
		Otto Jespersen, 1860-1943, Danish linguist with French as his principal subject and Latin and English as his minor subjects, Professor of English Language and Literature at Copenhagen University 1893-1925.
		Jespersen had great influence in several linguistic fields.
		Jespersen was not only an extremely talented and productive linguist, but also an excellent communicator, both in speech and writing.
	www.um.dk /publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap1/1-8-1-2.asp (220 words)

	Language Log: A shibboleth of gentility: [h] from William Shakespeare to Henry Higgins
		Meanwhile, Americans missed the action almost entirely, though the English fad for h-loss did apparently affect a few colonials such as John Adams.
		Otto Jespersen, in his Modern English Grammar (1949), gives many details (section 2.943) about the history of the "mute h" (originally in words taken from French), observing that "in many...
		Jespersen agrees with Sweet that "in all English dialects, except the very northernmost...
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000514.html (1084 words)

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		In his book of 1943 entitled Phonetics: a critical analysis of phonetic theory and a technic for the practical description of sounds, (Ann Arbor) Otto Jespersen's starting point is the idea that all sounds are
		In addition to Greek and Roman letters Jespersen uses Arabic numerals to denote the distance in the middle of the mouth (= central articulation) and Roman numerals to signify the distance on each side of the central closure (= lateral articulation).
		Jespersen himself called his system analphabetic; in our scheme it should rather be called alphanumeric.
	www.uni-mainz.de /FB/Philologie-II/fb1413/elearning_phonetics/Pike_phonetics_book.htm (197 words)

	Comedian burns US flag on live TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Comedian Otto Jespersen has not yet noticed that his candle for a war in Iraq has ignited the US flag.
		Jespersen's closing rant, which has become the high point of the program, ended on Thursday with a pro-war tirade.
		Jespersen then said: "I would like to light a candle for a long and bloody war, and may this flame inspire the USA to turn Baghdad into the world's biggest crematorium."
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	Word Spy - Otto Jespersen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A written word is mummified until someone imparts life to it by transposing it mentally into the corresponding spoken word.
		—Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, The Philosophy of Grammar, 1924
		Slang is a linguistic luxury, it is a sport, and like any other sport, something that belongs essentially to the young.
	www.wordspy.com /WAW/Jespersen-Otto.asp (141 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Metanalysis is a technical term in linguistics that was coined in 1914 by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who was one of the great grammarians of English.
		Jespersen gave the following example: "It is good for a man/not to touch a woman," which could be apprehended as "It is good/for a man not to touch a woman."
		Sometimes metanalysis is given an especially broad range, where it is applied to any process of counter-etymological regularization--as when the plural of Walkman becomes Walkmans instead of Walkmen, or when the nonce past tense of sing-song is sing-songed instead of sang-song.
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	Annotation: Grammar and the Twentieth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Furthermore, Ong explains, the shift away from grammar is not a twentieth-century phenomenon but a trend that can be traced all the way back to antiquity, proof that the importance of grammar in the study of language has always been suspect.
		To discuss the ongoing debate over the importance of grammar, Ong utilizes the work of two grammarians, James Harris and Otto Jespersen, both of whom he sees as "historical points of reference" for his discussion of the shift away from emphasizing grammar.
		Typical of this development in the study of language is the work of Otto Jespersen, whose notion of "living" grammar (rather than "universal" grammar) places the focus of grammar on communication between humans.
	homepages.udayton.edu /~youngkbr/anngrammarand.htm (336 words)

	LINGUIST List 8.1582: School deadline extension, Jespersen texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Linguist's Life.[an English translation of his autobiography] (2) Jespersen, Otto.
		(3) Christophersen, P. "Otto Jespersen: A retrospect." Transactions of the Philological Society 1-19.
		"Otto Jespersen." In Thomas A. Sebeok, Portraits of Linguists.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/8/8-1582.html (269 words)

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		The term extraposition is due to the Danish Anglicist J. Otto Jespersen, but the construction we will be examining is only one of the types of phenomena Jespersen had in mind when he coined the term, and moreover our view of that sub-type differs somewhat from his.
		To his earlier examples, Jespersen later added cases in which the extraposed element was a verbal or clausal constituent and the pronoun internal to the main sentence was "it", which he referred to as the preparatory it.
		And lastly, we will not identify Jespersen's description of the "it" as "representing" the extraposed element with the way a pronoun is linked to its antecedent.
	www.icsi.berkeley.edu /~kay/bcg/bcg/extrap.html (7446 words)

	E. A. Sonnenschein's The Soul of Grammar
		Most recent grammarians, following the lead of Otto Jespersen and others, would have us view the grammars of the modern languages as living bodies in states of constant flux.
		According to this view, many of the grammatical structures inherent in the ancient, "parent" languages such as Greek and Latin have, for practical purposes, disintegrated and are no longer relevant.
		He sought to discover, as it were, a common "soul" infusing the different bodies of grammar and rendering them capable of common description.
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	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92019138 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Publisher description for The philosophy of grammar / by Otto Jespersen ; with a new introduction and index by James D. McCawley.
		It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general
		Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), an authority on the growth and structure
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/uchi052/92019138.html (237 words)

	American Word - Archives
		Here in the child's first purposeless murmuring, crowing and babbling, we have real nature sounds; here we may expect to find some clue to the infancy of the language of the race.
		According to Jespersen, baby sounds may not be simply incomprehensible nonsense as some people and cultures suggest, but rather an artifact of the first proto-language.
		To prove this theory, Peter MacNeilage and Barbara Davis performed a study pertaining to the babbling sounds of preverbal infants who knew very few words and were unable to recognize simple cognates.
	www.american.edu /ocl/activities/groups/americanword/archives/v3/i1/features/babbiesbabble.htm (1744 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jespersen (Jens) Otto Harry
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	LINGUIST List 15.702: General Ling/Korea; Text/Corpus Ling
		The special topic for this year's conference is Otto Jespersen's English Scholarship.
		Although the Conference will mainly focus on analyzing and reinterpreting Otto Jespersen's works, any English related topics including the history of English, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, will be also welcomed for a separate session on English linguistics.
		Sessions Session 1: Jespersen's English Scholarship plenary sessions: invited speakers paper reading sessions: open to the public Session 2: English Linguistics plenary sessions: invited speakers paper reading sessions: open to the public 5.
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	AllRefer.com - Otto Jespersen (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Otto Jespersen[o´tO yes´pursun] Pronunciation Key, 1860–1943, Danish philologist.
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	MSN Encarta - Jespersen, (Jens) Otto Harry
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	Search Results for Jespersen - Encyclopædia Britannica
		He helped to revolutionize language teaching in Europe, contributed greatly to the advancement of phonetics, linguistic theory, and the...
		Seymour B. Chatman, A Theory of Meter (1965); Otto Jespersen, “Notes on Metre,” in The Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (1962); William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley, “The Concept of...
		Review by T. Christopher Jespersen of Michael H. Hunt's Lyndon Johnson's War (1996), published by H-Diplo in January 1997.
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