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Book Synopsis Progress in Language, with special reference to English by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in Language, with special reference to English written by Otto Jespersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Otto Jespersen collected English Writings Collection, originally published in 1894, this volume is to a certain extent an English translation of Jespersens’ ‘Studier over Engelske Kasus, nted en Indledning: Freniskridt i Sproget’, which was to the University of Copenhagen in February, 1891 on the development of English Language, but with some notable revisions when translated to English.
Book Synopsis Progress in Language by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in Language written by Otto Jespersen and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Progress in Language; with Special Reference to English by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in Language; with Special Reference to English written by Otto Jespersen and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. the development of language. 86. (44) We have seen in the preceding investigations that the downhill theory does not hold good for languages" in historic times; on the contrary, languages seem to be on the whole constantly progressive, not only with regard to the development of their vocabulary, where nobody ever denied it, but also in grammar, where philologists of the old school were able to see only decay and retrogression. And besides establishing this progressive tendency, we have also incidentally seen some at least of the often unexpected ways which lead languages to develop new grammatical forms and expressions. We are thus prepared to enter into a criticism of that theory concerning the prehistoric development of Arian speech which has met with greatest favour among philologists, and which has been expounded with greatest precision and consistency by Schleicher. The theory, as will be remembered, was this: an originally isolating language, consisting of formless roots, passed through an agglutinating stage, in which formal elements had been developed, although these and the roots were mutually independent, to the third and highest stage found in flexional languages, in which formal elements penetrated the roots and made inseparable unities with them. 87. (45) First, as regards the postulated root stage, we have seen how the support which Chinese was supposed to lend to the theory has broken down. But also from other quarters the belief in such a starting-point has been shaken. An investigation of Old Arian phonetic laws has led some philologists to doubt the supposition, which is essentially due to the old Indian grammarians, that roots were always monosyllabic; and now many prefer fancying the roots as dissyllabics....
Book Synopsis Progress in Language with Special Reference to English by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in Language with Special Reference to English written by Otto Jespersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Progress in Language by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in Language written by Otto Jespersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in Language, first published in 1894, dates from fairly early in Otto Jespersen's (1860-1943) academic career; it already contains many of the essentials of his argument against the prevailing mode of 19th-century linguistic thought which he maintained until the end of his life. As James D.McCawley writes in the Introduction:"Much of the fascination of reading this long out-of-print classic lies in seeing its relationship to Jespersen's long and distinguished subsequent career: seeing how much importance he already attached to variation in language, how tightly his views on linguistic change were already integrated with his views on synchronic grammar, how intransigently sociolinguistic his thinking about language change was (...), and how vast a collection he had already amassed of English examples illustrating even very subtle details of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics."
Book Synopsis Progress in Language, with Special Reference to English - Primary Source Edition by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in Language, with Special Reference to English - Primary Source Edition written by Otto Jespersen and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Book Synopsis PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE W/SPECIAL by : Otto 1860-1943 Jespersen
Download or read book PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE W/SPECIAL written by Otto 1860-1943 Jespersen and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Book Synopsis Progress in language, with special reference to English by : Jens Otto Harry Jespersen
Download or read book Progress in language, with special reference to English written by Jens Otto Harry Jespersen and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Progress in language by : Otto Jespersen
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Book Synopsis The Rise, Progress, and Present Structure of the English Language by : Matthew Harrison
Download or read book The Rise, Progress, and Present Structure of the English Language written by Matthew Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Progress in Linguistics by : Manfred Bierwisch
Download or read book Progress in Linguistics written by Manfred Bierwisch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Chapters on English by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book Chapters on English written by Otto Jespersen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chapters on English: Re-Printed From "Progress in Language" When the publishers told me that a reprint of Progress in Language with Special Reference to English (1894, second edition - practically without any changes, in 1909) was again called for, I thought it not advisable to issue the book once more in its former shape. It has always been to some extent prejudicial to the book that it was made up of two really distinct treatises: (1) chapters i.- v. and ix., dealing with questions of general philology, the development and origin of language, and (2) chapters vi.-viii., dealing with some special points in the history of English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis How to Teach a Foreign Language by : Otto Jespersen
Download or read book How to Teach a Foreign Language written by Otto Jespersen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Opinions of the Press"It appeals not only to specialists, but to all who concern themselves with that most fascinating of modern questions, the origin and development of speech. The opening chapter shows us the independent thinker and original investigator. Throughout, the destructive criticism is clear, incisive, and cogent. It cannot fail to affect in time even the manual-mongers and the examiners who expect the innocent school to reproduce the fictions of the cram-books. A philologist, who sees with his own eyes and sees straight, is a rare combination."-Journal of Education."Mr. Jespersen, who is still young, has long ago gained a high reputation as a phonetician. The introductory essay prefixed to the tracts before us will, we believe, secure for him a distinguished position among philological thinkers. It is long since we read so brilliant a performance of its kind."-Academy."Our readers will find the book as instructive as it is far removed from the dryness characteristic of most philological treatises. It furnishes material for deep thought and may almost be called a new starting-point in philology."-Asiatic Quarterly Review."The book is historical in its method, and attempts to show, by an examination of the typical characteristics of languages in all stages of development, what the general drift of language has been."-Guardian.When, in accordance with a wish expressed by English and American friends, I determined to have my Sprogundervisning translated into English, I found it difficult to decide what to retain and what to leave out of the original. So much of what I had written appeared to me to apply more or less exclusively to Danish schools and Danish methods, and I had too little personal experience of the practice of English teachers or of English school-books to be quite sure of the advisability in each case of including or excluding this or that remark. I have, however, made my choice to the best of my ability, and if some parts of my criticism are not altogether applicable to English methods, I hope I may be excused on the plea that what is now the really important thing is less the destruction of bad old methods than a positive indication of the new ways to be followed if we are to have thoroughly efficient teaching in modern languages.OTTO JESPERSEN.Gentofte,Near Copenhagen.IAbout twenty years ago, when I began to be interested in a reformation of the teaching of modern languages, there were not, as there are now, numerous books and articles on the subject, but merely scattered hints, especially in the works of Sweet and Storm. It was not long, however, before the movement found itself well under headway, especially in Germany. In Scandinavia it began at the appearance of the adaptation which I had made of Felix Franke's capital little pamphlet, "Die praktische spracherlernung auf grund der psychologie und der physiologie der sprache." At just about the same time, Western in Norway and Lundell in Sweden came forward with similar ideas, and at the Philological Congress in Stockholm in 1886 we three struck a blow for reform. We founded a society, of course, and we gave it the name Quousque tandem (which for the benefit of those not acquainted with Latin may be rendered "Cannot we soon put an end to this?"), that Ciceronian flourish with which Vi�tor had shortly before heralded his powerful little pamphlet, "Der sprachunterricht muss umkehren." Our Scandinavian society published some small pamphlets, and for a time even a little quarterly paper. But the movement soon reached that second and more important stage when the teachers began to put the reform into practice and when the editors of school-books began to give it more and more consideration, until at present it may be said that the reformed method is well on the way to permanent favour, at least as far as younger teachers have anything to say in the matter.
Book Synopsis Up and down the Cline The Nature of Grammaticalization by : Olga Fischer
Download or read book Up and down the Cline The Nature of Grammaticalization written by Olga Fischer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii) What is the role of the speaker in grammaticalization? (iii) Does grammaticalization itself provide a cause for change or is it an epiphenomenon, i.e. a conglomeration of causal factors/mechanisms which elsewhere occur independently? (iv) If it is epiphenominal, how do we explain that similar pathways so often occur in known cases of grammaticalization? (v) Is grammaticalization unidirectional? (vi) What is the nature of the parameters guiding grammaticalization? The overall aim of the book is to enrich our understanding of what grammaticalization does or does not entail via detailed case studies in combination with theoretical and methodological discussions.
Book Synopsis English – One Tongue, Many Voices by : Jan Svartvik
Download or read book English – One Tongue, Many Voices written by Jan Svartvik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.
