The Philosophy of Grammar

by Otto Jespersen

Book Overview

The Philosophy of Grammar, a radical innovation in linguistics research when it was first published, is now a standard reference work and all students in the field should be familiar with it. The topics covered are living grammar, systemic grammar, parts of speech, the three ranks, junction and nexus, nexus-substantives, subject and predicate, object, case, number, person, sex and gender, comparison, time and tense, direct and indirect speech, classification...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393003078
• ISBN13: 9780393003079
• Release Date: May 1965
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"