Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
Died when: 82 years 288 days (993 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish: ['?ts?o 'jesp?sn?]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.
Steven Mithen described him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
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