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...
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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...
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Karen Jespersen (born 1947), Danish politician Knud Jespersen (1926–77), Danish politician Mogens Jespersen (born 1949), Danish soccer player Otto Jespersen...
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an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen in 1928. It was designed to facilitate human communication between speakers...
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relatively unknown actors and well-known Norwegian comedians, including Otto Jespersen, Trollhunter received positive reviews from Norwegian critics. It opened...
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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...
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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...
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represent pronunciations. The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who coined the term. The...
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1842) and "Whisper, timid breathing" (Шепот, робкое дыханье, 1850). Otto Jespersen observed that the absence of verbs can give "a very definite impression...
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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...
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