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By Otto Jespersen. In the second part of the book, Jespersen relates the causes of semantic and phonetic changes and their general tendency toward simplification, the origin of grammatical endings, etymology and sound symbolism, resolving the whole in a discussion of the ultimate origin of human language.
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