periphrastic

Only few roots can form both the simple and the periphrastic perfect.

This construction in Latin is known as the passive periphrastic.

It also is used to represent agency in a construction with a passive periphrastic.

There is a literary periphrastic form using of, as in of a summer day.

The passive has both periphrastic and morphological means of expression.

For many speakers, both the simple and periphrastic forms in the following table are possible:

Like English, periphrastic constructions have come to the fore, but to a much greater degree.

By a periphrastic version of the general text.

The pronouns of periphrastic forms are in brackets when they appear.

Of a more agglutinative nature are the commonly used periphrastic constructions.

English, like some other languages, uses a periphrastic passive.

In addition to these basic forms, Greek also has several periphrastic verb constructions.

Independent studies showed that the drug actually could be successful in treatment of intended diseases (periphrastic nervous system neuropathies).

The distinction between inflected and periphrastic forms is usually illustrated across distinct languages.

Each of these predicates is a periphrastic form insofar at least one function word is present.

There is also a periphrastic imperfective future construction.

Other tenses were derived in the history of the individual languages through various means, such as periphrastic constructions.

In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.

The ancient aorist, imperfect, and (periphrastic) pluperfect have been lost.

It can be formed for all persons, in the present tense and in the two periphrastic imperfect.

The verb catenae of English are highly periphrastic.

The b-predicates are, however, more periphrastic than the a-predicates since they contain more words.

Modern Greek: past and non-past (future is expressed by a periphrastic construction)

To form the passive voice (where the subject denotes the undergoer, or patient, of the action), a periphrastic construction is used.

Some of the synthetic tenses represent original periphrastic tense structures that have become welded into single words.