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Defining ‘periphrasis’: key notions [PDF]
Morphology, 2012 We examine the notion of ‘(inflectional) periphrasis’ within the framework of Canonical Typology, and argue that the canonical approach allows us to define a logically coherent notion of periphrasis. We propose a set of canonical criteria for inflectional morphology and a set of canonical criteria for functional syntax, that is, syntactic constructions
Dunstan Brown +2 more
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Relatedness in Periphrasis [PDF]
, 2012 Bulgarian has several relevant verbal constructions, and this chapter concentrates on those where one instance of periphrasis is embedded within another. For example, the (periphrastic) future perfect has a periphrastic form of the verb ‘be’ as one component, giving a construction with embedded periphrasis.
Spencer, Andrew, Popova, Gergana
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Specifics of periphrase implementation in maritime English [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 The purpose of the study is the use of periphrasis in maritime English. Considering this, the following main tasks were formulated: to analyze periphrastic expressions, with their subsequent systematization of this material; to consider the existing ...
Avanesova Tatiana +4 more
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Desubjectivizing discourse through the use of the periphrasis haber que + infinitive in Spanish
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2022 The present investigation analyzes the use of a construction traditionally described as impersonal: the periphrasis haber que + infinitive. This is a variable phenomenon in Spanish grammar studied as a meaningful choice based on the cognitive ...
María José Serrano
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Grammaticalization of auxiliary verb constructions: The case of Italo-Romance mixed perfective auxiliation systems and the ‘MIXPAR’ project [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2022 This paper deals with auxiliary verb constructions in Romance, in particular with those that exhibit two auxiliary verbs ‘have’ and ‘be’ which alternate, in many Italo-Romance varieties, within one and the same paradigm.
Pavel Štichauer
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Linguistik Online, 2022 Progressivity in German can be expressed not only by lexical means but also by various periphrastic structures, e. g. the am-periphrasis, the prepositions bei and in combined with nominalized infinitives or the periphrastic infinitival construction with
Birgit Füreder +2 more
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Celestial objects periphrastic naming and synonym correlation
Неофилология, 2020 We consider the ability of language to express identical content by periphrastic means that reflects in the periphrase and synonym ratio. We prove that in the narrow sense periphrastic names cannot be considered as a simple synonymous replacement of the ...
Chunyang Du
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Volitional Mood in South Slavic with a Focus on Bulgarian
Linguistica, 2020 In this paper, we survey some of the inflected and periphrastic volitional mood paradigms in South Slavic with a focus on Bulgarian data. Our review confirms typological observations in the literature that volitional mood paradigms tend to ‘fracture ...
Gergana Popova, Andrew Spencer
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A Surprise in the Past: The Historical Origins of the Catalan go-past
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Crosslinguistically, the development of the verb go into a future tense is a common path of grammaticalization. In contrast, the past meaning of the go-periphrasis in Catalan is unexpected.
Silvio Cruschina, Anna Kocher
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Kanonická typologie a smíšené časování v románských jazycích [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2019 The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly it provides a detailed overview of the canonical approach to inflection (following Corbett 2007; 2009; 2015); secondly it attempts to analyze, within this approach, a typologically interesting phenomenon of mixed
Pavel Štichauer
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