Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
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![Jespersen's "analphabetic" representation (1889) of phones elsewhere transcribed as [š]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Jespersen%27s_analphabetic_representation_%281889%29_of_%28%C5%A1%29.jpg/500px-Jespersen%27s_analphabetic_representation_%281889%29_of_%28%C5%A1%29.jpg)
![John Brynildsen [no], A Dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian Languages (vol. 2, 1907); with phonetic script by Jespersen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Brynildsen%2C_Engelsk%E2%80%93Dansk%E2%80%93Norsk_Ordbog_sample.jpg/500px-Brynildsen%2C_Engelsk%E2%80%93Dansk%E2%80%93Norsk_Ordbog_sample.jpg)
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Max MüllerAlso won Volney Prize
Jürgen MoltmannAlso won honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
Inge LehmannAlso won honorary doctorate from Columbia University
Antoine MeilletAlso won Volney Prize
João GilbertoAlso won honorary doctorate from Columbia University
Hélène CixousAlso won honorary doctor of the University of St AndrewsAbout this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1860 to 1943 · aged 82
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