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# Otto Jespersen

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 1914–1924

Otto Jespersen wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1914–1924; often with [Brett Reynolds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/brett-reynolds/), Peter Evans (eds.).

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## Papers

1. **[The Philosophy of Grammar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/jespersen-1924-philosophy-grammar/)** *(1924)* A theoretical book in which Jespersen steps back from describing English to ask what grammatical categories are and how they relate to the categories of thought.
2. **[Negation in English and Other Languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/jespersen-1917-negation-english-other-languages/)** *(1917)* A short book of about 150 pages on negation, written from examples that Jespersen collected by hand on slips over his career.
3. **[A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Parts II–VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/jespersen-1914-modern-english-grammar-historical/)** *(1914)* Jespersen's multi-volume descriptive grammar of English, written over four decades, covers the language from Shakespeare to the 1930s and explains each present-day form through its history.

## Co-authors (2)

- [Brett Reynolds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/brett-reynolds/)
- Peter Evans (eds.)
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