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1. Bentein (Klaas), Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek, Have-and Be-Constructions, Oxford, University Press, 2016

open access: yes, 2017
Hummel Pascale. 1. Bentein (Klaas), Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek, Have-and Be-Constructions, Oxford, University Press, 2016. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 130, fascicule 2, Juillet-décembre 2017. pp.
Hummel, Pascale
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A cross-linguistic comparison of clausal embedding with causatives

open access: yesIsogloss
In Italian, causatives are expressed through a periphrasis make + infinitival V. When the embedded verb is transitive, the embedded subject is generally introduced by a to/by preposition.
Paolo Lorusso, Linda Badan
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Change in Portuguese verbal system: the variants of conditional and the issue of grammaticalization

open access: yesGragoatá, 2006
Recent studies have focused the grammaticalization of the verb of movement ir (to go) into an auxiliary verb. This paper shows that in Brazilian Portuguese this auxiliary occurs not only in the expression of the future (time) but also in variation with ...
Ana Lúcia dos Prazeres Costa
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Instability in Stability: Therapeutic and Elaborative Periphrasis in the Dalabon Pronominal Prefix Paradigm

open access: yes, 2015
Periphrasis has a striking role in the Australian (non-Pama-Nyungan) language Dalabon, where it helps to maintain the paradigm structure, and at the same time reshapes the paradigm by adding new categories.
Evans, Nicholas
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Progressive Verbal Periphrasis être en train de + INF and its Respondents in Czech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The thesis deals with expressing the progressive aspect in the French and Czech language. The study is based on the corpus analysis of the collocation être en train de + inf with the main focus on its possible meanings depending on various contexts and ...
Kyzourová, Kateřina
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British and American Political Cartoons in Sociocultural Context

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
This research is set in the framework of sociolinguistics and employs the Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. The article contains the contrastive analysis of British and American political cartoons that are viewed as multimodal texts embedded in ...
Svetlana Yu. Pavlina
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Towards the identification of verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek: a prototype analysis

open access: yes, 2011
This paper discusses how to identify so-called 'periphrastic' constructions in Ancient Greek. I characterise verbal periphrasis as a prototypically organised category, with central or 'prototypical' members and more peripheral ones.
Bentein, Klaas
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