periphrasis

It is occasionally called the periphrasis ("side about the right angle").

As early as 6 May 1660 he publicly prayed for the king "by periphrasis."

The pluperfect indicative can also be expressed with an equivalent periphrasis.

Periphrasis is a characteristic of analytic languages, which tend to avoid inflection.

The following trees illustrate the periphrasis of light verb constructions:

The future indicative is usually replaced with a periphrasis or the present indicative in the spoken language.

He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.

Periphrasis or circumlocution is one of the most common: to "speak around" a given word, implying it without saying it.

Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs.

New forms also developed, such as the conditional, which in most Romance languages started out as a periphrasis, but later became a simple tense.

I have, on occasion, accused a loquacious colleague of "sesquipedalian periphrasis".

Using a periphrasis showing an eventuality.

The role of catenae for the theory of periphrasis is illustrated with the trees that follow.

Alternative perfect periphrasis, with passive participle, for example:

Also periphrasis.

"Her guts work,' Afo said in a tone that bordered on disgust with his periphrasis.

(The intensified periphrasis, based on the verbal intensifier)

Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis.

While periphrasis concerns all categories of syntax, it is most visible with verb catenae.

Its use is either as a canonical adjective, or as a part of a second, alternative perfect periphrasis with transitive verbs.

Even strongly inflected synthetic languages sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms.

Use of non-standard verbal periphrasis, (many of them archaisms):

Regular perfect periphrasis, with aparemphato ("invariant form"), for example:

Modal periphrasis of duty or hypotetical.

Number is not marked in these subject and object indices, but a plural subject may be indicated through a verbal periphrasis serving this function.