In linguistics and literature, periphrasis (/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/) is the use of a larger number of words, with an implicit comparison to the possibility of using...

In Latin, there are multiple periphrases for tense and mode. Here we list the most common. The perfect periphrasis is composed of the sum auxiliary and...

Philology. 2 (4): 305–314. JSTOR 44938469. Squartini, Mario (1998). Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and Grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton...

Lyly's mannered style is characterized by parallel arrangements and periphrases. The style of these novels gave rise to the term euphuism. The proverb...

kenning "ugly sons of Fornjót" to mean the 'wind'. How should the wind be periphrased? Thus: call it son of Fornjót, Brother of the Sea and of Fire, Scathe...

euphuism, are the refined prose and poetry language of aristocratic salons, periphrases, hyperbole, and puns on the theme of gallant love. Honoré d'Urfé, Vincent...

(Translation: In order to obviate misunderstandings and avoid cumbersome periphrases, [the author, a university lecturer] suggests designating as "enzymes"...

it is not possible to create new ones, except by compounding. Verbal periphrases of obligation: Caldre + que + infinitive (personal) Caldre + infinitive...

Spanish, but still active in Portuguese. It has also several verbal periphrases. Portuguese verbs have the following properties. Two numbers—singular...

also inflected for number and person of the subject, and it has more periphrases. Uzbek uses some of the inflectional (simple) verbal tenses: Cognate...

descended, as well as of those which have sprung from him. How is one to periphrase him in terms of these things? Thus, by calling him accomplisher or performer...

exceedingly permeate, permute peri- around, near or adjacent perihelion, periphrase photo- light photoelectric, photography, photosynthesis pleo- more pleonasm...

Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many...

Óðins, Heljar sinna, Vála dólg. — Guðni Jónsson's edition "How should one periphrase Hödr? Thus: by calling him the Blind God, Baldr's Slayer, Thrower of the...

men. His wife is Iðunn. In Skáldskaparmál Snorri writes: How should one periphrase Bragi? By calling him husband of Iðunn, first maker of poetry, and the...

A verb paradigm is a set of verbs that are selected according to features such as the number, speech role and gender of event participants. Number Hic...

Sentences are compressed to the point of obscurity, unusual words and periphrases give the language an esoteric quality, and transitions in meaning often...

Svipdagr: Sinmara has so far been mentioned twice explicitly, and twice by periphrases. In certain editions and translations, she is mentioned explicitly a...

900–1000 km diameter. Designations Other designations are synonyms or periphrases sometimes encountered for the object. Permanent designations (of planetary...

Her dissertation was entitled "The Historical Development of Aspectual Periphrases in English." She joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia...

("Giantland") is not explicit in text, but the Þórsdrápa here quoted periphrases Þórr's destination as "ymsa kindar iðja" which has been translated as...

which stay the same. The idea of possibility is often expressed by periphrases: by -urus sim, essem, fuerim, fuissem and by a subjunctive tense of possum...

language also showed the proliferation of numerous tense and aspect periphrases with a decreasing frequency towards the end of the period. Notable are...

1966: 90f) (Most commonly just gras —see note on skru bilong lek above.) Periphrases: Tok Pisin: nambawan pikinini bilong misis kwin (literally "first child...

1039/CT9119900997. From p. 1004: " … it is proposed, in order to avoid the cumbrous periphrase "mixtures having a minimum (or maximum) boiling point," to designate them...

(punctual/historical) past. Other aspects in Italian are rendered with other periphrases, like prospective (io sto per mangiare "I'm about to eat", io starò per...

groups function as a unit and supplement inflection for tense (see Latin periphrases). For details on verb structure, see Latin tenses and Latin conjugation...

Turkish extract were used (usull, itifak, adet, sharte) or in the Albanian periphrase "rrugë" or "udhë" (way or path). In Martanesh and Çermenikë it was known...

express distinct verbal aspects by means of analytic structures such as periphrases, rather than synthetic ones; the only aspectual distinction between two...

except with the imperative, the infinitive, and the gerund. In verbal periphrases, they precede the auxiliary verb. In spoken Brazilian Portuguese, clitic...