10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIPHRASIS»
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periphrasis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
periphrasis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In recent years, David Denison, Matti Rissanen, Terttue Nevalainen and Arja Nurmi have produced the most influential works on the do-periphrasis, based on earlier ideas of thinkers such as Visser, Engblom or Ellegard.
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Verbal Periphrases in a Functional Grammar of Spanish
In current linguistic terminology, the term "periphrasis" refers to the use of
combinations of words, rather than inflection or agglutination, for the expression
of some sort of grammatical meaning (Crystal 1985: 225). 3 Although, as a
general ...
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New Reflections on Grammaticalization
The STARE+gerund periphrasis in the Iberoromance languages is used to
express habits and dispositions, which Bybee/Dahl (1989: 82) considered as
evidence for a high degree of grammaticalization in the case of English. On the
other ...
Ilse Wischer, Gabriele Diewald, 2002
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Gradus, A-Z Bernard Marie Dupriez Albert W. Halsall. Periphrasis thought and
expression (see baroquism*, R1). '[Periods] are oratorical stanzas. We see the
point at which they begin; we feel in advance their endings; our ears follow both
the ...
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
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Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and ...
Certainly the definition of the periphrasis as durative is the most frequent in 19th-
20th century grammarians and it is still influential today,31 while a quite
unorthodox analysis of the Progressive is proposed in Fernandez Ramirez (1935
) who ...
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Periphrasis: The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Paradigms
Comprises selected papers from the conference "Typology of periphrasis" held at the University of Surrey, June 7-8, 2010.
Marina Chumakina, Greville Corbett, 2012
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Historical English Syntax
Spoken. language. and. the. history. of. ^-periphrasis. Maul. Rissanen. 1.
Introduction. In his Historical syntax, Leon Kellner does not give too many details
of the history of periphrastic do. He points out that do had the meaning 'to cause'
from ...
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A Formal Grammar of Spanish for Phrase-level Analysis ...
While the fourth, the fifth and the sixth alternatives account for Periphrasis non-
terminals in which the non-functional clitic pronoun has been attached to an
initial finite active voice (ACT) semiauxiliary, the seventh and the eighth
alternatives ...
María Paula Santalla del Río, 2002
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Et sapienter et eloquenter: Studies on Rhetorical and ...
We do not strictly follow the vision of Evans, but we also count yiyvoudi with
participle among the periphrases.17 Some of them act as periphrasis equivalent
to a simple verb form in the Septuagint of Ezekiel. We adopt from Porter the claim
that ...
Eberhard Bons, Thomas J. Kraus, 2011
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Morphologie / Morphology. 1. Halbband
You are here You saw her Clearly, “periphrastic do” is periphrastic in much the
same way as the cases of morphological periphrasis, but the filled gaps in (16)
are not morphological monolectic forms. Did you see is a syntactic phrase which
...
Geert E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERIPHRASIS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
periphrasis is used in the context of the following news items.
The Spectator at war: Polysyllabic passion
Perhaps the best example of picturesque periphrasis, however, with which we are acquainted appeared in a provincial Irish newspaper. «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
People Who Opposed The Iraq War From The Beginning Are The …
into a weeklong wacky adventure of periphrasis. At first, Bush's answer was yes, then the answer was that he had misheard the question, and ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
Norwich City must stand firm in the face of Championship mind games
Your prior appraisal of Paddy`s pre- and post-weekend periphrasis of prose was pertinent. We have `balletic` again. Just as well the score ... «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Apr 15»
Princeton accuses former architecture dean of making "inaccurate …
Does the unacknowledged periphrasis of a few sentences of technical nature, on an interim document justifies the application of those rules? «Dezeen, Mar 15»
WRITING WRONGS: Writing Wrongs says a syntactical sayonara to …
Periphrasis — the use of many words where one or a few would do. Reductio ad absurdum — the disproof of a proposition by showing the ... «Sierra Vista Herald, Dec 14»
Reflections on Walter Benjamin
The Koranic periphrasis, according to this reading anyway, adumbrates beheading for those who imagine they can do without Allah, or who ... «The Fortnightly Review, Nov 14»
UNAMID's failure and the issue of security in Darfur
"Crisis" in any literal sense is no longer the appropriate word, so I resort to periphrasis: what we are seeing in Darfur is an "accelerating ... «Sudan Tribune, Aug 14»
Commas and colons: without them, we're sunk
Where some grammatical questions are confusing – anyone for periphrasis? – punctuation is a simplifier and a clarifier of language. Without ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
Translating “Frozen” Into Arabic
... translation is challenging, and tends to work best when the translator has recourse to the amplifying and telescoping powers of periphrasis, ... «New Yorker, May 14»
The Shocking Monsieur Shakespeare
So from euphemism to periphrasis, it took some 200 years for French audiences to learn exactly what Desdemona had lost, driving Othello mad. Along the way ... «American Spectator, May 14»
