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Morphology, 2015
This paper provides a formal theory of inflectional periphrasis, the phenomenon where a multi-word expression plays the grammatical role normally played by a single word filling a cell in an inflectional paradigm. Expanding on the literature, I first identify and illustrate six key properties that a satisfactory theory of periphrasis should account for:
Olivier Bonami
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This paper provides a formal theory of inflectional periphrasis, the phenomenon where a multi-word expression plays the grammatical role normally played by a single word filling a cell in an inflectional paradigm. Expanding on the literature, I first identify and illustrate six key properties that a satisfactory theory of periphrasis should account for:
Olivier Bonami
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The boundaries of inflexion and periphrasis
2022This chapter discusses what counts as inflexion and what counts as periphrasis. The discussion is intended as a contribution to general linguistic theory, and data are drawn from a variety of languages, but the main focus is on Romance. Structurally, inflexion and periphrasis are distinguished by a simple typological parameter: inflexion is synthetic ...
John Charles Smith
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