1. Other languages employ periphrasis , with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs. 2. The following trees illustrate the periphrasis of light verb constructions: 3. Periphrasis is a characteristic of analytic languages, which tend to avoid inflection.4. It contrasts with periphrasis , aureation and pleonasm. 5. But that same penchant for periphrasis could lead to another career opportunity . . .. 6. The role of catenae for the theory of periphrasis is illustrated with the trees that follow. 7. Metonymy skates on top of periphrasis in just basically a grotesquery of the way a sentence ought to be ordered. 8. Even strongly inflected synthetic languages sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms. 9. Some other constructions that commonly express a range of modal notions show a greater degree of periphrasis than those considered so far. 10. Its use is either as a canonical adjective, or as a part of a second, alternative perfect periphrasis with transitive verbs.
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