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    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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  • relatively unknown actors and well-known Norwegian comedians, including Otto Jespersen, Trollhunter received positive reviews from Norwegian critics. It opened...
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    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...
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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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    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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  • planned languages 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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  • 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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    linguist Otto Jespersen and published in 1890 in the Dania, Tidsskrift for folkemål og folkeminder magazine from which the system was named. Jespersen's Dania...
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  • Golimo Marcus Brodersen Starring Anders Baasmo Christiansen Sven Nordin Otto Jespersen Jenny Skavlan Henrik Mestad Ida Husøy Trond Halbo Cinematography Askild...
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    of its most influential proponents, Louis Couturat. In 1928, leader Otto Jespersen left the movement for his own language Novial. Ido declined in popularity...
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  • occur when a speaker follows "a natural speech instinct", according to Otto Jespersen and Robert J. Menner. Hypercorrection can be found among speakers of...
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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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  • international auxiliary language by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, who introduced it to the world in 1928. Jespersen had previously been a co-author of Ido, which...
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    while, and unless, which take a clausal complement. But since at least Otto Jespersen (see English prepositions for the historical development of the idea)...
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    historical principles is a seven-volume grammar of English written by Otto Jespersen. The first volume ("part"), Sounds and Spellings, was published in 1909;...
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    However, the following informal or dialectal options have been used: Otto Jespersen calls amn't "unpronounceable": 120  and Eric Partridge calls it "ugly"...
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  • equivalent usus was a crucial term in the research of Danish linguists Otto Jespersen and Louis Hjelmslev. They used the term to designate usage that has...
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  • is a term coined by Otto Jespersen for pronouncing a word or phrase without vocalizing its initial sounds. One example Jespersen gave is for "Good morning"...
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  • Internet. In 1928 Ido's major intellectual supporter, the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, abandoned Ido, and published his own planned language, Novial. It was...
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  • is uncommon. Two examples of this type were developed by the Danish Otto Jespersen (1889) and American Kenneth Pike (1943). Pike's system, which is part...
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  • Golden Hans Morten Hansen Harald Heide-Steen jr. Espen Beranek Holm Otto Jespersen Bård Tufte Johansen Leif Juster Are Kalvø Trond Kirkvaag Knut Lystad...
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    future revisions. The idea of making the IPA was first suggested by Otto Jespersen in a letter to Passy. It was developed by Alexander John Ellis, Henry...
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  • generally a sign of a more linguistically oriented prosodist at work. Otto Jespersen introduced his numeric notation in 1900 (in Danish; English translation...
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  • set, such as Susan is a president. This view has been contrasted by Otto Jespersen in the first part of the XX century and by Giuseppe Longobardi and Andrea...
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  • the latter's "redundant" letters: e.g. be/bee, in/inn, I/eye, to/two. Otto Jespersen suggested the short spelling was a marker of reduced stress. Content...
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  • Golimo Marcus Brodersen Starring Anders Baasmo Christiansen Sven Nordin Otto Jespersen Jenny Skavlan Henrik Mestad Ida Husøy Marie Blokhus Vegar Hoel Jonas...
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    otherwise the objective is used. While grammarians such as Henry Sweet and Otto Jespersen noted that the English cases did not correspond to the traditional Latin-based...
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  • sophisticated naturalistic IAL, also known as Occidental. Novial nov 1928 Otto Jespersen Another sophisticated naturalistic IAL by a famous Danish linguist....
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