TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERIPHRASES»
The term «periphrases» is used very little and occupies the 171.679
position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIPHRASES»
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in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to periphrases
and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
in a Functional Grammar of Spanish
Contains a description of all the different types of verbal periphrases used in modern peninsular Spanish.
in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and ...
A study not of the literary genre but of the Romance languages, focusing on reconstructing the path of grammaticalization of some analytic constructions and the competition between synthetic and analytic forms in the verb phrase.
The Substance of Language Volume II: Morphology, Paradigms, ...
Morphology, Paradigms, and Periphrases is concerned with the role of the lexicon, in particular its inflectional morphology, in mediating between syntax and phonology.
Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological Perspectives and ...
University of Lyon After defining applicative periphrases as constructions in
which a verb (the verb-operator) acts as a valency operator licensing the
expression of an additional participant fulfilling a given semantic role in the event
encoded by ...
Fernando Zúñiga, Seppo Kittilä, 2010
Words, Worlds, and Contexts: New Approaches in Word Semantics
JOACHIM BALLWEG Simple Present Tense and Progressive Periphrases in
German Q. In BALLWEG/FROSCH (this volume) a language TP 1 has been
introduced which contained an operator CA, read intuitively as 'come about', by
means of ...
Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer, Hannes Rieser, 1981
Aspect in Grammatical Variation
chapter. 3. Aspectual. periphrases. and. syntactic. variation. in. Brazilian.
Portuguese. Ronald Beline Mendes University of São Paulo 3.1 Introduction The
variation between the periphrastic constructions estar + gerúndio 'be + Gerund' (
James Anthony Walker, 2010
Dante's Style in His Lyric Poetry
The only group of periphrases to show any similarity with the rhetorical examples
are those which render the concept, 'moriré'. Geoffrey's Documentum, in fact,
exemplifies the figure circumitio with eight periphrases of mortuus est.1 But here
The Influence of French on Eighteenth-century Literary ...
52 In the eighteenth century these periphrases were copied into Russian.
Several Russian scholars have remarked upon the use of these calques.
Vinogradov noted that periphrases, such as ceemuno dnn and dneeHoe
ceemuno, were used ...
Non-definiteness and Plurality
Indefinites, quantifiers and pluractionals What scope effects tell us about event
pluralities Brenda Laca Université Paris 8- CNRS UMR 7023 In this paper, I will
examine the way in which two Spanish aspectual periphrases contributing ...
Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski, 2006
Regia Parnassi Seu Palatium Musarum: In Quo Synonima, ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Typographia Balleoniana (Venecia), 2011
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERIPHRASES»
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Belle – film review
This consists of antique-veneer periphrases alternating with the odd crashing moment of vernacular (“My God, it's a negro!”) Listen to people ... «Financial Times, Jun 14»
Ejaculations in Jane Eyre
It is “indirectness, periphrases, roundaboutness, convolutedness and circuitousness.” But if you're going around a roundabout you cannot say ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jan 14»
Man divorces wife and sues her for having an ugly baby
WHEN A MAN WANT OUT OF A MARRIAGE ANY EXCUSE WILL DO..TO BAD THE COWARD USED HIS BABY FOR HIS PERIPHRASES. «Examiner.com, Nov 12»
... is the diffusion of a culture of euphemism, in which disagreeable realities are draped with decorous evasions or periphrases – 'human rights ... «CounterPunch, Nov 12»
'Respect Gandhi If You Will, Don't Sentimentalise Him'
... is the diffusion of a culture of euphemism, in which disagreeable realities are draped with decorous evasions or periphrases - 'human rights abuses' for torture ... «Outlook, Nov 12»
Exploring professional translation
But this source is unfortunately very limited and when it failed him he has had to look elsewhere or resort to periphrases. Print Email. Advert. «Times of Malta, May 12»
Bog-Standard Britain, By Quentin Letts
"Oh, the shame") and ossified periphrases ("the fairer sex") reinforce the feeling that one isn't reading a book by a real person at all, but a ... «Independent, May 10»
Shakespeare, Sex & Love
Eric Partridge, the New Zealand lexicographer who first collected and expounded them in Shakespeare's Bawdy (1947), found 68 periphrases ... «Financial Times, May 10»