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The Swedish perfect and periphrasis
2021Abstract 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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2012
The Nakh-Daghestanian language Archi has several types of verbal constructions: periphrases, complex predicates, and phenomena very similar to serial verb constructions. This chapter investigates these constructions, using the approach of canonical typology; this allows different constructions to be ranked in terms of their proximity to the canonical ...
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The Nakh-Daghestanian language Archi has several types of verbal constructions: periphrases, complex predicates, and phenomena very similar to serial verb constructions. This chapter investigates these constructions, using the approach of canonical typology; this allows different constructions to be ranked in terms of their proximity to the canonical ...
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Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device)
Reposition, 2017Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is an experimentally designed scenario in the draft stage, a think-tank and rehearsal for a future exhibition—but Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is also an exhibition in itself. Starting from the idea of the copy as a nowadays omnipresent yet more and more invisible artistic practice and form, seven ...
null Franz Thalmair, null Michael Kargl
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The TORNARE-periphrasis in Italo-Romance
2022This 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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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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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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‘Verbal’ and ‘Adjectival’ Periphrasis
2016AbstractThis chapter discusses the notions of ‘verbal periphrasis’ and ‘adjectival periphrasis’ from a theoretical point of view. At present, there is no consensus as to which constructions can be classified as ‘periphrastic’. After a critical discussion of some recent proposals, a new approach is suggested, based on the view that categories are ...
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The Phrase-structural Diversity of Periphrasis
2012Periphrastic 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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Sentence Negation and Periphrasis
2012In 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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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 ...
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Periphrasis on the Origin of Rhetoric
MLN, 1979How 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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