--- title: "Otto Jespersen — papers and cards" description: "Otto Jespersen: 3 paper cards in the Research library (1914–1924), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/otto-jespersen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/otto-jespersen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Otto Jespersen # Otto Jespersen 3 paper cards in the Research library · 1914–1924 Otto Jespersen wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1914–1924; often with [Brett Reynolds](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brett-reynolds/), Peter Evans (eds.). Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Otto+Jespersen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Otto+Jespersen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Otto+Jespersen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Otto+Jespersen) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Otto+Jespersen) ## Papers 1. **[The Philosophy of Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/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.research.elamur.ai/free/en/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.research.elamur.ai/free/en/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.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brett-reynolds/) - Peter Evans (eds.)