Periphrasis
Translation- Periphrasis
In
linguistics , periphrasis is a device by which a grammatical category or relationship is expressed by afree morpheme (typically one or morefunction word s modifying a content word), instead of being shown byinflection or derivation. For example, the English future tense is periphrastic: it is formed with anauxiliary verb ("shall" or "will") followed by the base form of the main verb. Another example is thecomparative andsuperlative forms of adjectives, when they are formed with the words "more" and "most" rather than with thesuffix es "-er" and "-est": the forms "more beautiful" and "most beautiful" are periphrastic, while "lovelier" and "loveliest" are not. [cite book| title=A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics| last=Trask| first=R. L.| publisher=Arnold| id=ISBN 0-340-65266-7| year=1997| location=London| pages=166]Periphrasis is a characteristic of
analytic language s, which tend to avoid inflection. Evensynthetic language s, which are highly inflected, sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms. [cite book| last=Stump |first=Gregory T. |chapter=Inflection |title=The Handbook of Morphology |editor=Andrew Spencer andArnold M. Zwicky (eds.) |pages=13–43 |year=1998 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford |id=ISBN 0-631-18544-5]A comparison of some
Latin forms with their English translations shows that English uses periphrasis in many instances where Latin uses inflection:References
See also
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Adposition
*Analytic language
*Compound verb
*Deflexion (linguistics)
*Grammatical particle
*Phrase
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periphrasis — noun перифраз(а) Syn: see circumlocution … Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
Periphrasis — Pe*riph ra*sis, n.; pl. {Periphrases}. [L.] See {Periphrase}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
periphrasis — 1> перифраз(а) … Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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periphrasis — pəˈrɪfrəsɪs сущ. перифраз(а) Syn : circumlocution перифраз(а) periphrasis (pl ses) перифраз(а) … Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь
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