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...

Hans Otto Jespersen (born 21 July 1954) is a Norwegian comedian, actor and television personality. He starred in the title role of the 2010 film Trollhunter...

Karen Jespersen (born 1947), Danish politician Knud Jespersen (1926–77), Danish politician Mogens Jespersen (born 1949), Danish soccer player Otto Jespersen...

communication between speakers of different native languages. It was devised by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had been involved in the Ido movement that evolved...

relatively unknown actors and well-known Norwegian comedians, including Otto Jespersen, Trollhunter received positive reviews from Norwegian critics. It opened...

loss of the original pre-verbal marker. The pattern was formulated in Otto Jespersen's 1917 book Negation in English and Other Languages, and named after...

represent pronunciations. The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who coined the term. The...

upon by an independent clause. The term was coined by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen. Content clauses are also known as noun clauses. In English, there are...

languages as it has existed for more than a century. Formalised by Otto Jespersen in 1931 as the science of interlanguages, in more recent times, the...

linguist Otto Jespersen and published in 1890 in the Dania, Tidsskrift for folkemål og folkeminder magazine from which the system was named. Jespersen led...