Almost every periphrastic has its own syntactical peculiarities, but in general they come between the nonfinite form and the auxiliary.
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A superlative is expressed by combining the comparative, in either its periphrastic or synthetic form, with a preceding definite article.
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This is known as a periphrastic genitive, and is a phenomenon also commonly seen in dialectal and colloquial German, and in Dutch.
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For English to express the same meaning, it usually employs the periphrastic two-word prepositional phrase with " for ".
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The periphrastic perfect is used with causative, desiderative, denominative and roots with prosodic long anlauted vowel ( except a / ).
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Future tense / time in French is often constructed with an inflected form, whereas English typically employs a periphrastic form, e . g.
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This near future is used less often than it is in Spanish or French, because it may be confused with the Catalan periphrastic past.
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Of your examples of periphrastic constructions, 1, 2, and 4 sound insanely awkward to me and I would change the construction entirely.
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Such disincorporation of verbal modifiers into periphrastic expressions on analogy with Spanish forms indicates a shift towards a more analytic style characteristic of Hispanic speech.
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They can appear in periphrastic verb catenae, when they help form the main predicate of a clause, as is illustrated with the trees below.
