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Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen
Jespersen, c. 1915
Born(1860-07-16)16 July 1860
Randers, Denmark
Died30 April 1943(1943-04-30) (aged 82)
Roskilde, Denmark
OccupationLinguist

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."[1]

  1. ^ Mithen, Steven (2005). The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body. London: Orion Publishing Group. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-7802-2258-5.

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