ABSTRACT

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their notice. The layout of the book largely follows the nature of the subjects dealt with: English grammar, phonetics, history of English, language teaching, language in general, international language and miscellaneous papers.

chapter |85 pages

CHAPTERS ON ENGLISH (1918)

FREFACE

chapter |5 pages

ADVERSATIVE CONJUNCTIONS (1933)

chapter |5 pages

THE ROLE OF THE VERB (1911)

chapter |8 pages

THE HISTORY OF A SUFFIX (1939)

chapter |6 pages

A SUPPOSED FEMININE ENDING (1933)

chapter |42 pages

EFFICIENCY IN LINGUISTIC CHANGE (1949)

chapter |3 pages

FOR+SUBJECT+INFINITIVE (1910)

chapter |4 pages

A FEW BACK-FORMATIONS (1935)

chapter |26 pages

THE SYSTEM OF GRAMMAR (1933)

chapter |9 pages

THE TEACHING OF GRAMMAR (1924)

chapter |7 pages

WHAT IS THE USE OF PHONETICS ? (1910)

chapter |14 pages

SYMBOLIC VALUE OF THE VOWEL I (1933)

chapter |17 pages

MONOSYLLABISM IN ENGLISH (1933)

chapter |2 pages

THE NASAL IN NIGHTINGALE, etc. (1902)

chapter |20 pages

NOTES ON METRE (1933)

chapter |8 pages

THE CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES (1920)

chapter |13 pages

NATURE AND ART IN LANGUAGE (1933)

chapter |5 pages

HISTORY OF OUR LANGUAGE (1921)

chapter |3 pages

PREFACE, NOVIAL LEXIKE (1930)

chapter |8 pages

INTERLINGUISTICS (1931)

chapter |8 pages

KARL VERNER (1933)

chapter |11 pages

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (1933)

chapter |2 pages

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE (1933)