Progress in language [[electronic resource] ] : with special reference to English / / Otto Jespersen
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| Autore: |
Jespersen Otto <1860-1943.>
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| Titolo: |
Progress in language [[electronic resource] ] : with special reference to English / / Otto Jespersen
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 1993 |
| Edizione: | New ed. with an introd. / |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 417/.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historical linguistics |
| English language - Grammar, Historical | |
| Altri autori: |
McCawleyJames D
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; SELECT BIBLIORAPHY OF JESPERSEN'S WRITINGS; PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ENGLISH; PREFACE.; CONTRACTIONS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.; CHAPTER II. ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES.; CHAPTER III. PRIMITIVE GRAMMAR.; CHAPTER IV. THE HISTORY OF CHINESE AND OF WORD-ORDER.; CHAPTER V. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE.; CHAPTER VI.; I. MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION.; II. SYNTACTICAL CLASSIFICATION. |
| I. MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION.II. SYNTACTICAL CLASSIFICATION.; CHAPTER VII. CASE-SHIFTINGS IN THE PRONOUNS.; I. Relative Attraction.; II. Blendings.; III. Anacoluthia.; IV. Influence from the Nouns.; V. Position.; VI. Phonetic Influences.; CHAPTER VIII. THE ENGLISH GROUP GENITIVE.; APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII.; CHAPTER IX. ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.; I. METHOD.; II. SOUNDS.; III. GRAMMAR.; IV. VOCABULARY.; V. CONCLUSION.; INDEX | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Progress in language |
| ISBN: | 1-280-87953-X |
| 9786613720849 | |
| 90-272-7716-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827588203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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