{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-grammar-otto-jespersen-9780415611312","title":"The Philosophy of Grammar","description":"This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia \u003cbr\u003eUniversity in 1909-10, called \"An Introduction to English Grammar.\" \u003cbr\u003eIt is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general \u003cbr\u003eprinciples of grammar based on years of studying various languages \u003cbr\u003ethrough both direct observation of living speech and written and \u003cbr\u003eprinted documents. \u003cbr\u003e\" \"The Philosophy of Grammar\" and \"Analytic Syntax\"] set \u003cbr\u003eforth the most extensive and original theory of universal grammar \u003cbr\u003eprior to the work of Chomsky and other generative grammarians of the \u003cbr\u003elast thirty years.\"--Arne Juul and Hans F. Nielsen, in \"Otto \"\u003cbr\u003e\"Jespersen: Facets of His Life and Work\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Besides being one of the most perceptive observers and original \u003cbr\u003ethinkers that the field of linguistics has ever known, Jespersen was \u003cbr\u003ealso one of its most entertaining writers, and reading \"The \"\u003cbr\u003e\"Philosophy of Grammar\" is fun. Read it, enjoy it.\"--James D. \u003cbr\u003eMcCawley, from the Introduction \u003cbr\u003eOtto Jespersen (1860-1943), an authority on the growth and structure \u003cbr\u003eof language, was the Chair of the English Department at the University \u003cbr\u003eof Copenhagen. Among his many works are \"A Modern English \"\u003cbr\u003e\"Grammar\" and \"Analytic Syntax,\" the latter published by the \u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Otto Jespersen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415611318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415611312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Otto Jespersen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056082317567,"sku":"9780415611312","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84ba546a-e377-42d7-8e70-c7fd5f2b94ac.jpg?v=1685039412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philosophy-of-grammar-otto-jespersen-9780415611312","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}