A grammatical miscellany offered to Otto Jespersen on his seventieth birthday.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bøgholm, N. (Niels), 1873-1957, editor.

Brusendorff, Aage, 1887-1932, editor.

Bodelsen, C. A. (Carl Adolf), 1894-1978, editor.

Carlsbergfondet (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943.

Jespersen, Otto.

Philology.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

464 pages : portrait ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Levin & Munksgaard; London : G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1930.

Contents:

Some unworked sources for English lexicography / A. Mawer

How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England / E. Ekwall

Einige tatsachen betreffend Scyld Scefing / A. Brandl

Grendel in Beowulf and in local names / R.E. Zachrisson

Old English (ge) hȳdan, "heed" / K. Malone

Oldengelsk fæmne / H. Pedersen

The assibilation of palatal stops in Old English / G. van Langenhove

Die freilassungsurkunden des Bodmin-Evangeliars / M. Förster

Anglice loqui / A.T. Bødtker

Breche in "The owl and the nightingale" line 14 / C.T. Onions

The etymology of the ME. verbs rope, ropele, and rupe / K.F. Sundên

Probleme der neuenglischen schriftsprache in ihrer frḧzeit / L. Morsbach

Aphesis, syncope and apocope in Middle and Early modern English / A. Western

Note on the development of unstressed English e into i / A. Sommerfelt

Spenser's diction and style in relation to those of later English poetry / H.C. Wyld

The English language and the "restored" pronunciation of Latin / G.C.M. Smith

The pronunciation of English loan words in Japanese / S. Ichikawa

Some expressions of quantity in spoken English / W.E. Collinson

Outstanding features of English grammatical number / N. Bøgholm

The relative aspect of the verb in English / A. Brusendorff

Some minor points of English syntax / F. Karpf

Shall and will. Some remarks on present day usage / T. Dahl

The elliptical genitive / A.E.H. Swaen

From generation to generation / J.M. Manly

Le sustème de la grammaire / V. Brøndal

Nexus. Subjekt and objekt. Aktiv und passiv / L.L. Hammerich

The absolute and the realtive in Eskimo / W. Thalbitzer

Anti-phrase et style indirect libre / C. Bally

De la valeur des sourdes aspirées indo-européennes / A. Meillet

Principes d'écriture / J.A> Lundell

Norwegian "berive" / H. Logeman

Fremmede folkenavne som slægtsnavne i Danmark / V. Dahlerup

Om nogle "episke love" / J. Brøndum-Nielsen

Portugisiske ord in dansk / K. Nyrop

L'ū latin dans les langues romanes / A. Wallendköld

Remarques sure l'emploi de l'infinitif attribut en français / K. Sandfeld

Responsabilité / F. Brunot

Sur un caractère traditionnel de la poésie celtique / J. Vendryes

Il "tramonto del sole" in alcuni dialetti dell'Italia setten-trionale / C. Tagliavini

The Basque words for "woman" / C.C. Uhlenbeck

Pri nonmediati derivatione in li international lingues / S. Auerbach

Bibliography (p. [433]-457) / C.A. Bodelsen

Subject-index / N. Haislund.

Notes:

Edited by N. Bøgholm, Aage Brusendorff and C. A. Bodelsen.

"The publication of this volume has been made possible by a grant from Carlsbergfondet, Copenhagen."--p. [2].

Bibliography, page [433-]457.

OCLC:

2335192