| Labor is simply the complementary of leisure, and the two together are the periphrastic equivalent of life. |
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| As the lexicon expands, the clumsy but motivated compounds and periphrastic expressions disappear. |
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| I'm not even going to pause to point and laugh at the absurd periphrastic present in the last line of the first verse. |
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| The Tories, meanwhile, are busy conjuring ever more periphrastic ways of admitting that many of their policies have been ditched. |
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| But that supposes a kind of periphrastic conjugation and neglects the indications of parallelism. |
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| The translations by his champion Rufinus are often freer and more periphrastic than those of Jerome, in the interests of orthodoxy and of clarity. |
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| His was unquestionably the more gracious: concise where Mr Darling's was waffly, blunt where the chancellor was periphrastic. |
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| The periphrastic word combinations are catenae even when they are not constituents, and individual words are also catenae. |
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| Each of these predicates is a periphrastic form insofar at least one function word is present. |
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| The distinction between inflected and periphrastic forms is usually illustrated across distinct languages. |
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| The imperfect is constructed in a similar manner, as are the periphrastic forms of the future and conditional tenses. |
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| Some IE languages have moved from synthetic verb systems to largely periphrastic systems. |
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| These functions are instead fulfilled by periphrastic constructions involving a verb and various prepositional phrases. |
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| These verb catenae are periphrastic forms of English, English being a relatively analytic language. |
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| The periphrastic forms are periphrastic by virtue of the appearance of more or most, and they therefore contain two words instead of just one. |
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| Individual words are always constituents, but their periphrastic equivalents are often NOT constituents. |
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| The correspondence in meaning across inflected forms and their periphrastic equivalents within the same language or across different languages leads to a basic question. |
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| English, like some other languages, uses a periphrastic passive. |
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| The pronouns of periphrastic forms are in brackets when they appear. |
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| Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis. |
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