This early work Otto Jespersen was originally published in 1905 and we
are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Growth
and Structure of the English Language' is a scholarly linguistic study.
Otto Jespersen was born in Randers, Denmark on 16th July 1869. He worked
as an academic at Copenhagen University and rose to the position of
professor of English, a post he held from 1893 to 1925. Jespersen made a
considerable contribution to the study of linguistics and some of his
works are still used as the basic texts for study in the field.