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	Periphrasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Periphrasis, like its Latin counterpart circumlocution, is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly expressed through several or many words.
		In linguistics, periphrasis is a device by which a grammatical concept is expressed by a phrase or standard idiom, instead of being shown by inflection, derivation or the use of non-content words.
		The so-called compound tenses and all the modal expressions in English, as well as the passive voice, are periphrastic too.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Periphrasis (275 words)

	Periphrasis .....................
		Periphrasis may be used on purpose, especially in writing, as a means of creating anticipation, through delay.
		Periphrasis was more common in earlier centuries, where the writing and speech was far more 'flowery'.
		Periphrasis can also be used to generate a form of pun, by substituting uncommon words, or word phrases, for simpler ones.
	www.worsleyschool.net /socialarts/peri/phrasis.html (512 words)

	The Literary Encyclopedia: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The way of speaking around a topic, rather than stating it directly.
		Periphrasis may be intended to heighten anticipation through delay, to enable ornament, or to delay coming to pain, as in euphemism.
		The fictitious narrator imagined by the poet to speak the words of a poem.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /glossaryMZ.php (1937 words)

	Longinus, On the Sublime, tr. W. Rhys Roberts, Peitho's Web at Ancient Sites
		For just as in music the so-called accompaniments bring out the charm of the melody, so also periphrasis often harmonises with the normal expression and adds greatly to its beauty, especially if it has a quality which is not inflated and dissonant but pleasantly tempered.
		A hazardous business, however, eminently hazardous is periphrasis, unless it be handled with discrimination; otherwise it speedily falls flat, with its odour of empty talk and its swelling amplitude.
		But our parenthetical disquisition with regard to the use of figures as bearing upon the sublime has run to sufficient length, dear Terentianus; for all these things lend additional passion and animation to style, and passion is as intimately allied with sublimity as sketches of character with entertainment.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/longinus/desub009.htm (284 words)

	PERIPHRASTIC, PERIPHRASIS, PERIPHRASTIC COMPARATIVE, PERIPHRASTIC GENITIVE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Periphrastic structures apply circumlocution (which is the general meaning of periphrasis) to grammatical functions such as the genitive and comparison.
		Both these functions can be signaled by morphology—that is, by inflectional endings (the table’s finish, the handsomer actor)—but with the periphrastic, English employs a function word construction instead: the finish of the table (with of and occasionally other prepositions, such as for, in the periphrastic genitive; see also
		Periphrasis is simply the name of the process, and it offers stylistic variety.
	www.bartleby.com /68/32/4532.html (152 words)

	Figurespeech
		Redundancy, tautology, pleonasm, verbosity, verbiage, prolixity, diffuseness, circumlocution, periphrasis.
		Rhetoric Use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression, as use of a negative, passive, or inverted construction, naming by descriptive epithet, introduction of abstract general terms, etc.; a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; circumlocution.
		Synonymy: Redundancy, tautology, pleonasm, verbosity, verbiage, prolixity, diffuseness, circumlocution, periphrasis.
	www.geocities.com /muslowords/Figurespeech.html (4356 words)

	Grenoble paper
		Hence, what at the outset was a relation between a suppletive and non-suppletive series within the bound morphology becomes a relation between a bound suppletive series and two periphrastic series, one of which subsequently returns to being bound.
		This means that whatever stage in the development of a given periphrasis or grammaticalization has been reached, there will always be at least one corresponding item in the language where the same f-structure information will be derived from an autonomous lexical entry.
		Periphrasis can be seen as the syntactic limit case where the requisite form is imported from what is often considered a separate module, namely the syntax (Matthews 1991: 219-221).
	cslipublications.stanford.edu /LFG/1/VincentBorjars.html (4730 words)

	Periphrasis - TheBestLinks.com - Basic English, Constructed language, English language, Euphemism, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Periphrasis, Basic English, Constructed language, English language, Euphemism...
		Periphrasis is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is expressed by many or several words.
		(Periphrasis is of Greek origin, while circumlocution is Latin – both meaning "phrasing around", as in "avoiding the straightforward way of saying it".)
	www.thebestlinks.com /Periphrasis.html (286 words)

	Glossary-n
		Periphrasis can be used for rhetorical effect, often of emphasis.
		Periphrasis is sometimes required when a target language lacks a word to match a word in the source language.
		Although the two terms sound nearly identical, periphrasis is different from paraphrasis, which is the use of paraphrase.
	www.geocities.com /bible_translation/glossn.htm (1838 words)

	unsaved:///Pagina nueva 5.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I understand that there will be not a particular moment in which the periphrasis appeared, and I also suppose that I will find a period of transition in which, depending on the text, I will find the be going to periphrasis, or the old way of expressing future.
		The type of approach that I will use in analysing the process will be the variationist one, because I am not just describing the periphrasis in a particular moment of time (for which a traditional approach would do) nor trying to find out what transformational rules provoked the change.
		I must bear in mind that the introduction of the periphrasis with a future value was surely done before it first appeared on a text.
	perso.wanadoo.es /marco.velez/filoloxi/essays/begoing.htm (1320 words)

	Cherchi: Geryon's Canto
		The cases of periphrasis are frequent and quite interesting.
		Synecdoche, metonymy, and catachresis are figures that aim at the concrete, material representation whereas periphrasis exists to avoid precise definition or identification.
		The poet's and the pilgrim's disdain for these sinners is shown in the (partial) anonymity in which they are kept, like the «ignavi» and the avaricious and the prodigal; the poet's and pilgrim's sarcasm is shown in the presentation of aristocratic families through animal imagery.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/02/cherchi.html (5709 words)

	Constructional idioms and periphrasis: the aan het infinitive construction in Dutch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Constructional idioms and periphrasis: the aan het infinitive construction in Dutch
		This implies that we will have to extend the traditional class of periphrastic expressions (multi-word units that function as word forms of a paradigm).
		I will also show on the basis of an analysis of this construction that we have to distinguish between multi-word units that function as lexemes, and periphrasis.
	ling.uni-konstanz.de /pages/conferences/interkoq/booij.htm (222 words)

	EDUCATION Fortunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"The answer is in the negative" is a periphrasis for No. "Was made the recipient of" is a periphrasis for Was presented with.
		The periphrasis style is hardly possible on any considerable scale without much use of abstract nouns such as "basis, case, character, connexion, dearth, description, duration, framework, lack, nature, reference, regard, respect".
		The existence of abstract nouns is a proof that abstract thought has occurred; abstract thought is a mark of civilized man; and so it has come about that periphrasis and civilization are by many held to be inseparable.
	fortunes.quotationsbook.com /fortunes/collection/18/EDUCATION (4920 words)

	Course III, Lesson 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Periphrasis is exactly what it sounds like it is. Peri, the Greek preposition
		The present periphrastic tense is formed by a present tense form of
		An example of present periphrasis is the phrase
	www.ntgreek.net /lesson32.htm (921 words)

	Ernest Speakers--Figures of Speech
		See CIRCUS, LOQUACIOUS.] Use of many words to express an idea that may be expressed by few or one word; indirect or roundabout language or expression.
		deny themselves all indulgence of the luxury of too delicate a conscience (a periphrasis which might be abridge considerably)" (– De Quincey).
		Pleonasm (which may sometimes be a means of proper emphasis) denotes the use of words whose omission would leave one’s meaning intact; as: "It is a pleonasam, a figure usual in Scripture, by a multiplicity of expressions to signify one notable thing" (– Robert South (1634-1716)).
	www.earnestspeakers.com /figuresofspeech.html (4328 words)

	Glossary of terms outside computer science : Thomas Alspaugh : UCI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mar. 16 Some name is needful if we would avoid the loose clumsiness of perpetual periphrasis.
		§7 And instead of either of those Names, use a Periphrasis to make any one understand their meaning.
		A rhetorical figure by which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking or acting; the introduction of a pretended speaker.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~alspaugh/glossary-ext.html (2817 words)

	LENNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sigmund Eisner points out that the astronomical periphrasis of MLI 1-14, where Bailly calculates that it is ten o'clock on April 18 on the Julian calendar, is indebted to the Kalendarium.
		Chauntecleer, on the third of May, gives the sun's position in an astronomical periphrasis, NPT 3187-3199, which, Eisner points out, uses Nicholas of Lynne's shadow scale.
		The astronomical periphrasis at ParsP 1-11 is also indebted to the shadow scale of Nicholas of Lynne.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/L/lenne.htm (314 words)

	'KA', AND EGYPTIAN MAGIC
		Achilles might be addressed as "strength of Achilles." The words sthenos, is, menos, bia, each meaning force of some kind, are used, also kara and kephale, head.
		Phaos, light, is used as periphrasis by Homer.
		It is used in periphrasis, like bia and kara, e.
	www.grazian-archive.com /quantavolution/QuantaHTML/vol_12/ka_13.htm (4881 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(1) “Lord of rings,” a periphrasis for a chief, that is, Mord.
		The mother of Hildigunna was Aud Eyvind Karf’s daughter, the sister of Modolf the Wise of Mosfell, from whom the Modylfings are sprung.
		(2) “Frodi’s flour,” a periphrasis for “gold.” (3) “Sea’s bright sunbeams,” a periphrasis for “gold.” (4) She was a sister of Thorwald the Scurvy,...
	www.literaturemania.com /njals10 (2104 words)

	Talk with Dr. Valentin Soto.(Core and Periphrasis in Spanish) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I am just going to give you some examples of Core and Periphrasis in Spanish, because he gave me very long and difficult explanations.
		When talking about the future: Core: Voy a ir (I am going to go) Vengo el proximo mes (I come next month)This is in between Core and periphery.
		In this case, we know that the person we are talking about is a "she" since we mention her at the very end of the sentece(ella); whereas in the second sentence we know that this person is a "she" since the pronoun "la" is attached to the main verb.
	chss2.montclair.edu /sotillos/_theories/00000024.htm (217 words)

	-yourDictionary.com - Word of the Day
		The adjective is "periphrastic." In grammar periphrasis refers to the use of two words to do the work of one, such as the complex comparative "more beautiful" as opposed to one word like "prettier".
		But when Rumpole of the Bailey refers to his wife, Hilda, as "she who must be obeyed," he uses periphrasis for humor.
		While Robert Browning might have thought elsewhere that "less is more," his periphrastic description of evening as "[w]here the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles" in 'Love Among the Ruins,' is far more poetic than one word alone.
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?word=periphrasis (251 words)

	periphrasis - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Periphrasis : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Periphrasis : Glossary of Literary Terms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=periphrasis&ls=a (251 words)

	Re: i'll be your pal Eddie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Periphrasis is the putting of things in a round-about way.
		news" is a periphrasis for There is no reliable news in Paris.
		negative" is a periphrasis for No. "Was made the recipient of" is a
	www.pacificnet.net /~sperling/wwwboard/messages/2212.html (328 words)

	Aristotle - Ousia - Periphrasis and the Dilemma of Metaphysics - Historical Background
		Aristotle - Ousia - Periphrasis and the Dilemma of Metaphysics - Historical Background
		Look at the amount of periphrasis required to express indirectly simple existence:
		If this is not the case and there are in fact thousands of “alternative” or “realistically-based” or “logically-inspired” translations out there somewhere, then I would be more than happy to hear about them.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /dilemma03.htm (264 words)

	I John 1, Periphrasis and Copulative EIMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Folks: ` I am still muddling through I John 1, but learning a significant amount about Koine as I am going along.
		What I discovered was in verse 4 a Perfect Participle was used with a Subjunctive of EIMI.
		Prev by thread: Re: I John 1, Periphrasis and Copulative EIMI
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/97-05/msg00423.html (266 words)

	Jesus: God's Wisdom
		This term became a periphrasis for God; whether it could have been reckoned as a separate person, as in Christian Trinitarianism, is a matter of debate.
		The risk involved with making Wisdom/Word an independent deity was too great for the rabbis to speculate further, but Christians found in the Wisdom tradition an ideal categorical conception within which to place the person of Jesus.
		Within Judaism, the 'hypostatization' of Wisdom or Torah did not seem to undermine monotheism, since ultimately it was a kind of periphrasis used to circumvent the implication of direct contact between the transcendent God and the creation.
	www.tektonics.org /jesusclaims/trinitydefense.html (3487 words)

	More Grammatical Terms Related to Greek and English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In analyzing a sentence, it is important to identify which words belong to the relative clause.
		The English word 'periphrasis' comes from the Greek words 'peri' (which means 'round about') and 'phrasis' (which means 'to say').
		A periphrastic construction of a verb form is a 'round about way of saying something'.
	www.ntgreek.org /learn_nt_greek/more_terms.htm (447 words)

	Re: I John 1, Periphrasis and Copulative EIMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Re: I John 1, Periphrasis and Copulative EIMI
		Larry Hartman wrote; > >What I discovered was in verse 4 a >Perfect Participle was used with a Subjunctive of EIMI.
		Next by thread: I John 1, Periphrasis and Copulative EIMI
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/97-05/msg00430.html (285 words)

	New Covenant Church of God - B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh, FAQ 330. Understanding Biblical Periphrasis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Literalists, who do not understand the Hebrew mindframe, have a tendency to miss such things.
		A careful comparison of scripture makes the identification of periphrasis relatively easy with a little care.
		Since we know from elsewhere that all good things and rewards come from God (Elohim) (e.g.
	www.nccg.org /FAQ330-Periphrasis.html (225 words)

	LINGUIST List 9.143: Latin, Russian, English Verbs, ESL
		I'm a graduate student at New York University, and am doing research into verbal periphrases, mostly in Romance.
		I'm looking for anything that may have been written on a verbal periphrasis found in late Latin.
		It consisted of the verb coepisse (to begin) + and infinitive, and had a past meaning.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/9/9-143.html (344 words)

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