Analytic Syntax - Softcover

Jespersen, Otto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226398803 ISBN 13: 9780226398808

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1984

Synopsis

Here the great Danish linguist Otto Jespersen puts forward his views on grammatical structure in a kind of shorthand formalism, devising symbols that represent various grammatical elements and then analyzing numerous sentences in terms of these symbols. The contemporaneity of these analyses is remarkable, for they allude to concepts that were uncongenial to linguists in 1937 when the book was first published, but which have come to be generally accepted in the linguistics community during the past twenty-five years.

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About the Author

Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) was professor of English at the University of Copenhagen. Among his many works in Growth and Structure of the English Language, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

From the Back Cover

'{Analytic Syntax} gives the most concentrated dose of syntactic analysis to be found in the whole Jespersen canon and presents an integrated summary in the syntactic research that had engaged much of his efforts for forty years.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226398803
• ISBN 13: 9780226398808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182