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Coptic Circumstantial Periphrasis
Lingua Aegyptia - Journal of Egyptian Language Studies, 2019The 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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Inflectional periphrasis as collocation
2011no ...
Bonami, Olivier, Webelhuth, Gert
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Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in "A Passage to India"
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 1988Periphrasis, 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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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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Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek
2016AbstractThis book deals with the use and development of ‘periphrastic’ constructions in Ancient Greek (VIII bc–VIII ad), focusing on constructions with the verbs ‘to be’ (εἰμί) and ‘to have’ (ἔχω), as in ἦν διδάσκων ‘he was teaching’ or ἔχω θαυμάσας ‘I have wondered’.
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A diachronic analysis of the periphrasis soler + infinitive in Catalan
IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 2022Sandra Montserrat Buendia
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On habitual periphrasis in Cuzco Quechua
2019In Cuzco Quechua, a periphrastic construction composed of a lexical subject nominalization in conjunction with the copula is used to express habitual events anchored in the past, regardless of formal tense marking. The aim of this paper is to analyze the construction and evaluate its diachronic development with respect to established grammaticalization
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2002
Periphrastic DO constructions are very common both in English and in the Neo-Brittonic languages and are used for various functional purposes. These form part of a larger linguistic area in western and northern Europe. The literature does not mention comparable constructions for Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
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Periphrastic DO constructions are very common both in English and in the Neo-Brittonic languages and are used for various functional purposes. These form part of a larger linguistic area in western and northern Europe. The literature does not mention comparable constructions for Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
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