Philosophy of Grammar

This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia <BR>University in 1909-10 called An Introduction to English Grammar. <BR>It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general <BR>principles of grammar based on years of studying various languages <BR>through both direct observation of living speech and written and <BR>printed documents. <BR>[The Philosophy of Grammar and Analytic Syntax] set <BR>forth the most extensive and original theory of universal grammar <BR>prior to the work of Chomsky and other generative grammarians of the <BR>last thirty years.--Arne Juul and Hans F. Nielsen in Otto <BR>Jespersen: Facets of His Life and Work <BR>Besides being one of the most perceptive observers and original <BR>thinkers that the field of linguistics has ever known Jespersen was <BR>also one of its most entertaining writers and reading The <BR>Philosophy of Grammar is fun. Read it enjoy it.--James D. <BR>McCawley from the Introduction <BR>Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) an authority on the growth and structure <BR>of language was the Chair of the English Department at the University <BR>of Copenhagen. Among his many works are A Modern English <BR>Grammar and Analytic Syntax the latter published by the <BR>University of Chicago Press.