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false <![CDATA[The Philosophy of Grammar]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186979971m/1692217.jpg 1692217 1 <div>This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia University in 1909-10, called “An Introduction to English Grammar.” It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general principles of grammar based on years of studying various languages through both direct observation of living speech and written and printed documents. “[The Philosophy of Grammar and Analytic Syntax] set forth the most extensive and original theory of universal grammar prior to the work of Chomsky and other generative grammarians of the last thirty years.”—Arne Juul and Hans F. Nielsen, in Otto Jespersen: Facets of His Life and Work “Besides being one of the most perceptive observers and original thinkers that the field of linguistics has ever known, Jespersen was also one of its most entertaining writers, and reading The Philosophy of Grammar is fun. Read it, enjoy it.”—James D. McCawley, from the Introduction Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), an authority on the growth and structure of language, was the Chair of the English Department at the University of Copenhagen. Among his many works are A Modern English Grammar and Analytic Syntax, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.</div> 1689114 15 11 1992 The Philosophy of Grammar total:2|5:2| 2 10 9 1 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 01:54:23 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 01:56:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 06:57:43 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 06:57:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 10 07:10:12 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 07:10:14 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Nov 27 06:21:30 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 06:21:32 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Sep 20 22:10:40 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 22:10:40 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu May 15 22:00:22 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 22:00:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Mar 21 12:40:32 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:40:58 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Feb 29 22:44:28 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 22:44:35 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Aug 20 20:43:30 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 20:43:30 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1692217