- In
linguistics and literature,
periphrasis (/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/) is the use of a
larger number of words, with an
implicit comparison to the
possibility of using...
- Cir****locution (also
called cir****duction, cir****volution,
periphrasis, kenning,[dubious – discuss] or ambage[citation needed]) is the use of an unnecessarily...
- fact that the
remote preterite tense of
verbs is
usually formed with a
periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive.
Catalan has two types...
-
periphrases for
tense and mode. Here we list the most common. The
perfect periphrasis is
composed of the sum
auxiliary and a
perfect participle such as ductus...
- as a
euphemism for
their problematic words infirmité or invalidité.
Periphrasis, or cir****locution, is one of the most common: to "speak around" a given...
- you"]), the
continuity of an
action is
usually expressed by a
verbal periphrasis (perífrasis verbal), as in
estoy leyendo ("I am reading"). However, one...
-
obligatoriness was not
complete until the nineteenth. The
increasing use of do
periphrasis coincides with the
fixing of SVO word order. Not surprisingly, do is...
- (2003), "Constructional
idioms and
periphrasis: the
progressive construction in Dutch." (PDF),
Paradigms and
Periphrasis,
University of Kentucky, archived...
-
system present in the
older languages. Instead, it
relies heavily on
periphrasis, a
marginal verbal feature of
older Indo-Aryan languages.
Nepali is generally...
- Cœle-Syria.
Ptolemy does not use the term "Transjordan", but
rather the
periphrasis "across the Jordan". And he
enumerates the cities; Cosmas, Libias, Callirhoe...
