Otto Jespersen – Language its Nature Development and Origin

PDF #103 – Otto Jespersen – Language its Nature Development and Origin, 1922, University of Copenhagen

The distinctive feature of the science of language as conceived nowadays is its historical character: a language or a word is no longer taken as something given once for all, but as a result of previous development and at the same time as the starting-point for subsequent developments.

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