| 1. | Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs.
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| 2. | The following trees illustrate the periphrasis of light verb constructions:
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| 3. | Periphrasis is a characteristic of analytic languages, which tend to avoid inflection.
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| 4. | It contrasts with periphrasis, aureation and pleonasm.
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| 5. | But that same penchant for periphrasis could lead to another career opportunity . . ..
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| 6. | The role of catenae for the theory of periphrasis is illustrated with the trees that follow.
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| 7. | Metonymy skates on top of periphrasis in just basically a grotesquery of the way a sentence ought to be ordered.
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| 8. | Even strongly inflected synthetic languages sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms.
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| 9. | Some other constructions that commonly express a range of modal notions show a greater degree of periphrasis than those considered so far.
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| 10. | Its use is either as a canonical adjective, or as a part of a second, alternative perfect periphrasis with transitive verbs.
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