In linguistics and literature, periphrasis (/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/) is the use of a larger number of words, with an implicit comparison to the possibility of using...

Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, kenning,[dubious – discuss] or ambage[citation needed]) is the use of an unnecessarily...

periphrases for tense and mode. Here we list the most common. The perfect periphrasis is composed of the sum auxiliary and a perfect participle such as ductus...

fact that the remote preterite tense of verbs is usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive. Catalan has two types...

for their problematic words infirmité or invalidité.[citation needed] Periphrasis, or circumlocution, is one of the most common: to "speak around" a given...

obligatoriness was not complete until the nineteenth. The increasing use of do periphrasis coincides with the fixing of SVO word order. Not surprisingly, do is...

ellipsis Noun phrase Number Object Open class word Part of speech Particle Periphrasis Person Personal pronoun Phrasal verb Phrase Phrase structure grammar...

also be expressed with an equivalent periphrasis. The future indicative is usually replaced with a periphrasis or the present indicative in the spoken...

Saint Theophan the Recluse"). "Our Lady of Lourdes" is essentially periphrasis, except where some aspect of the Virgin is invoked.[citation needed]...

Cœle-Syria. Ptolemy does not use the term "Transjordan", but rather the periphrasis "across the Jordan". And he enumerates the cities; Cosmas, Libias, Callirhoe...