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30 sty 2014 · Periphrasis is demonstrated to behave as part of a morphological system in obeying the existing patterns, while formal accounts worked out within an HPSG approach reveal the systematic nature of...
In a narrower philological context, periphrasis is one of the canonical literary rhetorical figures (see Lausberg 1963:69), e.g. English to be hit with Cupid's arrow 'to fall in love', or German Elbflorenz 'Florence on the Elbe = Dresden'.
We argue that canonical periphrasis is exemplified in our theoretical space of possibilities whenever a cell in a (canonically morphological) inflectional paradigm (‘feature intersection’) is...
Expanding on the literature, I first identify and illustrate six key properties that a satisfactory theory of periphrasis should account for: (i) the phenomenon of periphrasis is found in the inflection of all major parts of speech; (ii) the logic of the opposition between periphrasis and synthesis is the logic of inflection; (iii) auxiliaries a...
We examine the notion of ‘ (inflectional) periphrasis’ within the framework of Canonical Typology, and argue that the canonical approach allows us to define a logically coherent notion of periphrasis.
Periphrasis stands at the intersection of two components, syntax (especially functional syntax) and (inflectional) morphology, each with their canonical properties. We start with the fundamental insight in the literature that periphrasis is syntax where we expect to find morphology.
Periphrasis is a phenomenon often neglected or incorrectly treated by handbooks and textbooks. In this volume John Anderson points out unfortunate aspects in the terminological tradition and significantly refines the theoretical distinction between the notions of ‘grammatical periphrasis’
