Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
List of John Benjamins publications in which Otto Jespersen (1860–1943) is
involved.
Titles
Progress in Language: With special reference to English. New edition
Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
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. read moreThe Lautgesetz-Controversy: A documentation (1885–86). New edition
Essay(s) by Georg Curtius (1820–85), Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922), Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927), Hermann Collitz (1855–1945), Hermann Osthoff (1847–1909) and Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time, the entire community of linguists came face to face with the most profound problems of its theory and practice; it… read more
