Otto Jespersen - Otto Jespersen Otto Jespersen (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. He was born in Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, French, and Latin. He also studied linguistics at Oxford. Jespersen was a professor of English at Copenhagen University from 1893 to 1925. Along with Paul Passy, he was a founder of the International Phonetic Association. He was an vocal supporter and active developer of artificial international languages such as Esperanto. He was also involved in the delegation that created the artificial language Ido and later developed the Novial language, which he considered an improvement. He was most widely recognized for some of his books. His Modern English Grammar concentrated on morphology.
Great Vowel Shift - mice) /o:/ -> /u:/ (in e.g. boot) /u:/ -> /au/ (in e.g. mouse) This means that the vowel in the English word make was originally pronounced as in modern English father, but has now become a diphthong, as it is today in standard pronunciations of British English (see Received Pronunciation); the vowel in feet was originally pronounced as a long Latin-like e sound; the vowel in mice was originally what the vowel in feet is now; the vowel in boot was originally a long Latin-like o sound; and the vowel in mouse was originally what the vowel in moose is now, but has now become a diphthong. The Great Vowel Shift was studied by the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943)..
April 30 - mathematician, astronomer and physicist (†1855) 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (†1844) 1870 - Franz Lehár, composer (†1948) 1877 - Alice B. Toklas, muse (†1967) 1883 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (†1923) 1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (†1946) 1898 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr, reporter, columnist, author, lecturer 1908 - Eve Arden, actress (†1990) 1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands 1911 - Luise Rinser, narrator (†2002) 1926 - Cloris Leachman, actress 1929 - Klausjürgen Wussow, actor 1933 - Willie Nelson, country musician, composer 1943 - Bobby Vee, singer 1944 - Jill Clayburgh, actress 1945 - Annie Dillard, poet, essayist, novelist 1946 - King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden 1946 - Don Schollander, Olympic gold medalist in swimming 1946 - Ulla.
Sound symbolism - alphabet - or more precisely the sounds of the letters. "Now the letter rho, as I was saying, appeared to the imposer of names an excellent instrument for the expression of motion; and he frequently uses the letter for this purpose: for example, in the actual words rein and roe he represents motion by rho; also in the words tromos (trembling), trachus (rugged); and again, in words such as krouein (strike), thrauein (crush), ereikein (bruise), thruptein (break), kermatixein (crumble), rumbein (whirl): of all these sorts of movements he generally finds an expression in the letter R, because, as I imagine, he had observed that the tongue was most agitated and least at rest in the pronunciation of this letter, which he therefore used in order to express motion" - Cratylus. (note.
Novial language - International Auxiliary Language] is a constructed language devised by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had previously been involved in the Ido movement. He devised Novial to be an international auxiliary language, which would facilitate international communication and friendship, without displacing anyone's native language. It features a vocabulary based largely on the Germanic and Romance languages, and a grammar heavily influenced by English. The first introduction of Novial was in Jespersen's book An International Language in 1928, with an update in his dictionary, Novial Lexike, published two years later. Further modifications were proposed in the 1930s, but with Jespersen's death in 1943, it became dormant, although in the 1990s, with the revival of interest in artificial language brought on by Internet, many people rediscovered Novial. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Novial.
List of people by name: J - astronaut Jerome, (about 340-420) Jerome, Jerome K, (1859-1927), US author Jerome of Prague, scholastic philosopher Jerome, William, (1865-1932), songwriter Jerry, Mungo, musician Jersek, Marjetka, poet Jesaias, patriarch of Constantinople Jesaias, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople Jeschke, Wolfgang, German science fiction writer Jesih, Boris, (born 1943), painter. Jesih, Milan, (born 1950), poet Jespen, Maria, (born 1945), theologian Jespersen, Otto, (1860-1943) Jessel, George A, (1898-1981), American vaudevillian Jessel, George, (1824-1883), British jurist Jester, Beauford H, (1947-1949), Texas governor Jesus Christ, (c. 4 BC - 33 AD), central figure of Christianity K. W. Jeter, US science fiction author Jeter, Michael, (1952-2003), US actor Jett, Brent, astronaut Jett, Joan, (born 1958), musician Jevons, William, (1835-1882), economist Jewel (singer), (born 1974), Amerian singer Jewett, Frank, (born 1879), inventor, president of Bell Labs Jewett, Sarah Orne, (born 1849),.
List of linguists - American L. L. Zamenhof (1859 - 1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto) Leonard Bloomfield (1887 - 1949) American Michael Halliday (1925 - ) Australian Michael Ventris (1922 - 1956) British Morris Halle (1923 - ) American (phonologist) Noam Chomsky (1928 - ) American Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943) Danish Panini (sometime during 7th - 4th centuries BCE) - the man who started it all with his analysis of Sanskrit in ancient India Roman Jakobson (1896 - 1982) Russian Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906 - 1992) American Sidney M. Lamb (born 1929) American Umberto Eco (1932 - ) Italian Victor Yngve (1920 - ) American Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 - 1864) Serb Sir William Jones (1746 - 1794) British William Labov (1927 - ) American (founder of sociolinguistics) William Safire (1929.
List of Danes - Madvig, (1804-1886) Axel Olrik, (1864-1917) Holger Pedersen, (1867-1953), Danish linguist Rasmus Rask Vilhelm Thomsen, (1842-1927) Karl Verner, (1846-1896), Danish linguist Archaeology Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, (1788-1865), Danish archaeologist J. J. A. Worsaae History Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian Architecture, Town-Planning, the Environment Arne Jacobsen, (1902-1971), Danish architect Bjørn Lomborg Steen Eiler Rasmussen, (1898-1990), Danish architect Jørn Utzon, (born 1918), Danish architect Jurisprudence Andreas Aagesen, (1826-1879) Philosophy Harald Høffding, (1843-1931) Søren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855), Danish philosopher K.E. Løgstrup Literature, Journalism Hans Christian Andersen, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories Jens Immanuel Baggesen, (1764-1826) Georg Brandes Isak Dinesen, (1885-1962), author Tove Ditlevsen, (1918-1976), poet and author Piet Hein, (1905-1996) Ludvig Holberg, (1684-1754), playwright Johannes V. Jensen, (1873-1950), Danish novelist Kaj Munk, (1898-1944), Danish dramatist Tor Nørretranders, (born 1955), science popularizer Adam Oehlenschläger, (1779-1850) Jacob Riis, (1849-1914) Peter.
Karl Otto Mörner - Karl Otto Mörner Baron Karl Otto Mörner was a Swedish courier who offered the succession to the Swedish crown to Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (future Charles XIV of Sweden) in 1810. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck - Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck (July 23, 1827 - July 18, 1898), German classical scholar, was born at Erfurt in Saxony. Having held professorial appointments at Kiel and Heidelberg, he succeeded his tutor Ritschl in the chair of classical philology at Leipzig, where he died on the 18th of July 1898. Ribbeck was the author of several standard works on the poets and poetry of Rome, the most important of which are the following: Geschichte der römischen Dichtung (2nd ed., 1894-1900); Die römische Tragodie im Zeitalter der Republik (1875); Scaenicae Rornanorum Poesie Fragmenta, including the tragic and comic fragments (3rd ed., 1897). As a textual critic he was distinguished by considerable rashness, and never hesitated to alter, rearrange or reject as spurious what failed to.
John Otto - John Otto John Otto, is the drummer with the band Limp Bizkit. This article is a stub article. You can help Wikipedia by improving it..
Gustaf Otto Stenbock - Gustaf Otto Stenbock Count Gustaf Otto Stenbock (1614-1685) was a Swedish soldier and politician, beeing appointed Privy Councilor in 1652, Field Marshal in 1656, Governor General of Scania in 1658, Lord High Admiral in 1664, and Chancellor of Lund University in 1666. He was deposed as admiral by King Charles XI of Sweden in 1675. See also: List of Swedish politicians, List of Swedish military commanders.
East Otto, New York - East Otto, New York East Otto is a town located in Cattaraugus County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,105. Geography \nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 107.1 km² (41.4 mi²). 106.6 km² (41.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.48% water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 1,105 people, 412 households, and 285 families residing in the town. The population density is 10.4/km² (26.8/mi²). There are 545 housing units at an average density of 5.1/km² (13.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.37% White, 0.45% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.00% Pacific.
Karl of Austria - figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination triggered off World War I), and of Princess Josepha of Saxony. In 1911 he was married to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, a daughter of the exiled Duke of Parma. Their oldest son and current head of the Habsburg family is Otto von Habsburg, who served as a German Member of the European Parliament. Names in other languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: German: Karl I, Czech: Karel I,.
Karlstorp - from Mariannelund. It has a population of about 50 residents and its most famous person was composer Otto Lindblad, who composed the Swedish Royal Anthem, not to be confused with the national anthem. In old writings Karlstorp is often spelled Carlstorp. External Links http://home.bip.net/carlstorp/ (Karlstorp's council of the parish).
Karl Lagerfeld - Karl Lagerfeld Karl (Otto) Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1938 in Hamburg, Germany) is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late twentieth century. He made his name as an independent creator who collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, including Chloe, Fendi and Chanel..
Karl Hase - failed to give religious feeling its due. His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik (1826; 6th ed., 1870), the value of which "lies partly in the full and judiciously chosen historical materials prefixed to each dogma, and partly in the skill, caution and tact with which the permanent religious significance of various dogmas is discussed" (Otto Pfleiderer). More popular in style is his Gnosis oder prot.-evang. Glaubenslehre (3 vols., 1827-1829; 2nd ed. in 2 vols., 1869-1870). But his reputation rests chiefly on his treatment of Church history in his Kirchengeschichte, Lehrbuch zunächst für akademische Vorlesungen (1834, 12th ed., 1900). His biographical studies, Franz von Assisi (1856; 2nd ed., 1892), Katerina von Siena (1864; 2nd ed., 1892), Neue Propheten (Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Savonarola, Thomas Münzer) are judicious and sympathetic..
Karl Immanuel Nitzsch - was Friedrich August Nitzsch Karl Nitzsch's principal works are: System der christlichen Lehre (1829; 6th ed., 1851; Eng. trans., 1849), Praktische Theologie (1847-1860; 2nd ed., 1863-1868), Akademische Vorträge über christliche Glaubenslehre (1858) and several series of Predigten. "He took as his starting-point the fundamental thought of Schleiermacher, that religion is not doctrine but life, direct consciousness, feeling. At the same time he sought to bring religious feeling into closer connexion with knowledge and volition than Schleiermacher had done; he laid special stress-and justly-on the recognition of a necessary and radical union of religion with morality, treating both dogmatics and ethics together accordingly in his System der christlichen Lehre" (Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p. 123). His Protestantische Beantwortung, a reply to the Symbolik of Johann Adam Möhler (1796-1838), which originally appeared.
Karl August von Hardenberg - peace of Paris he was raised to the rank of prince (June 3, 1814) in recognition of the part he had played in the War of Liberation. Hardenberg now had an assured position in that close corporation of sovereigns and statesmen by whom Europe, during the next few years, was to be governed. He accompanied the allied sovereigns to England, and at the congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was the chief plenipotentiary of Prussia. But from this time the zenith of his influence, if not of his fame, was passed. In diplomacy he was no match for Metternich, whose influence soon overshadowed his own in the councils of Europe, of Germany, and ultimately even of Prussia itself. At Vienna, in spite of the powerful backing of Alexander of Russia, he failed to.
Karl Daub - under the influence of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich von Schelling and Georg Hegel, and on account of the different phases through which he passed he was called the Talleyrand of German thought. There was one great defect in his speculative theology: he ignored historical criticism. His purpose was, as Otto Pfleiderer says, "to connect the metaphysical ideas, which had been arrived at by means of philosophical dialectic, directly with the persons and events of the Gospel narratives, thus raising these above the region of ordinary experience into that of the supernatural, and regarding the most absurd assertions as philosophically justified. Daub had become so hopelessly addicted to this perverse principle that he deduced not only Jesus as the embodiment of the philosophical idea of the union of God and man, but also.
