Expertlatin
- What are periphrastic tenses of English?
- What is periphrastic language?
- What is an active periphrastic?
- What is a periphrastic construction in Greek?
What are periphrastic tenses of English?
In English grammar, a periphrastic construction (pronounced per-eh-FRAS-tik) is one in which an independent word or multi-word expression has the same role as an inflection, such as the use of the auxiliary will with another verb to form the future tense.
What is periphrastic language?
In linguistics, periphrasis (/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/) is the use of one or more function words to express meaning that otherwise may be expressed by attaching an affix or clitic to a word. The resulting phrase includes two or more collocated words instead of one inflected word.
What is an active periphrastic?
(grammar) A conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries. The active periphrastic conjugation in Latin is formed by using the future active participle and the appropriate form of "esse".
What is a periphrastic construction in Greek?
Periphrastic constructions (identified by a plus sign in the direction of the other member of the pair, v+ +v) have a base verb whose only purpose is to give grammatical information; it has no semantic content.
