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The Swedish perfect and periphrasis

2021
Abstract This paper investigates the apparent near-optionality of the perfect auxiliary ha (‘have’) in Swedish. Restrictions on the near-optionality of ha -omission are typically recognized in the
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Periphrasis and possible lexemes

Periphrasis: The role of syntax and morphology in paradigms. , 2012
When examining Periphrasis we naturally analyse the state of the contributing elements and the interplay of syntactic and morphological factors. But if periphrastic forms are part of paradigms, we should also ask how periphrasis affects the notion ‘possible lexeme’.
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Periphrasis in Tundra Nenets1

2012
A detailed picture of periphrasis in Nenets (Uralic) presents a typologically rare instance of periphrasis in a nominal paradigm (as opposed to more familiar verbal periphrasis). Previous accounts treated Nenets nouns as an uncontroversial example of periphrasis, but this chapter demonstrates that a closer look reveals a more complicated picture.
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Periphrasis on the Origin of Rhetoric

MLN, 1979
How can one speak about the origin of rhetoric? To put it another way, what logic shall be invoked to account for the moment when persuasive technique first entered language? Philological science has always relied upon the logic of history, and so rhetoric's traces have been located as far back as we have texts which speak-that is, to Homer.
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The TORNARE-periphrasis in Italo-Romance

2022
This chapter examines verbal periphrases involving the originally transitive Latin verb TORNARE ‘turn’ in Italo-Romance. The emergence in late Latin of intransitive uses of TORNARE as a verb of motion meaning ‘return, go back’ prepared the way for early Romance collocations with an infinitive, ‘go back to doing’.
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Coptic Circumstantial Periphrasis

Lingua Aegyptia - Journal of Egyptian Language Studies, 2019
The paper looks into the history and synchrony of the Coptic periphrastic pattern, suggesting that the diathesis might be one of the factors triggering its usage. Contrary to the well-established opinion, it is demonstrated that Coptic periphrastic constructions do not have inchoative semantics.
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The Phrase-structural Diversity of Periphrasis

2012
Periphrastic constructions in related and well-studied languages such as English, German, and French exhibit significant diversity in their syntactic structure. In English the main verb combines with its complements first, whereas in German the main verb combines with the auxiliary first.
Bonami, Olivier, Webelhuth, Gert
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Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in "A Passage to India"

NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 1988
Periphrasis, defined most simply as "the use of many words where one or a few would do," has, like all figures, a more devious side. Rooted in the Greek "to speak around," described variously as a figure that simultaneously "underand over-specifies," or "the use of a negative, passive, or inverted construction in place of a positive, active or normal ...
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Inflectional periphrasis as collocation

2011
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Bonami, Olivier, Webelhuth, Gert
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Sentence Negation and Periphrasis

2012
In order to establish a typological picture of periphrastic negation, this chapter begins from the criteria for periphrasis established by Ackerman and Stump. These are feature intersection, non-compositionality, and distributed exponence. It is argued that while the first two work well for defining periphrasis, the third criterion is not sufficiently ...
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