How do Otto Jespersen’s contributions to 19th-century comparative grammar inform our understanding of modern language changes, particularly in relation to historical linguistics?
Jespersen's work is more aligned with historical linguistic studies and comparative grammar rather than modern linguistic changes.
Could someone clarify how Jespersen’s work fits within the broader scope of both historical and modern linguistic studies?
I've been meaning to invite someone to write and article with me related to that.
I suppose that you refer to Jespersen work Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin (1922). I have little to say about this book, but as your question also concerns "how Jespersen's work fits within the broader scope of ... modern linguistic studies", I would like to say that his book The Philosophy of Grammar (1924) seems to me to be an important forerunner, still read, to modern typological research in linguistics.
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