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The term 'verbal periphrasis' is commonly used to denote constructions consisting of a finite and a non-finite verb. This state of the art focuses on Ancient Greek periphrastic constructions, more specifically those formed with a participle. The first part of the article gives a broad outline of previous research and offers an overview of those constructions which are called 'periphrastic' in the literature. In the second and third part of the ...

In this article, I discuss the emergence of verbal periphrasis with U+03B5U+1F30U+03BCU+1F77 U+201CI amU+201D and U+1F14U+03C7U+03C9 U+201CI haveU+201D and a perfect, present or aorist participle in Archaic and Classical Greek. Adopting a so-called U+2018ecologicalU+2019 perspective, I argue for the importance of looking at the interrelationship between the periphrastic constructions in terms of their origins and development, drawing particular ...

This paper discusses which constructions in Ancient Greek consisting of a finite verb and a participle belong to the category of „verbal periphrasis‟. By applying various criteria of periphrasticity to a corpus of examples, I show that only a limited number of constructions can be considered fully periphrastic. I consider these constructions to be the central members of a prototypically organized category.

This paper discusses how to identify so-called 'periphrastic' constructions in Ancient Greek. I characterise verbal periphrasis as a prototypically organised category, with central or 'prototypical' members and more peripheral ones. By applying a number of generally accepted criteria of periphrasticity to a corpus of examples, I argue that we can distinguish between four groups of constructions considered periphrastic in the secondary literature.

This paper deals with the historical evolution of the causative and inchoative periphrases with poner in Spanish. In these constructions, poner functions as an auxiliary verb, combining with a subordinate infinitive to which it adds a causative (poner a alguien a trabajar) or an inchoative aspectual meaning (ponerse a trabajar). The aim of this paper is twofold. It aims (i) to determine when and how both periphrases developped out of the basic ...

Infinitive and subject in Portuguese and Spanish. An empirical study on adverbial infinitives with explicit subjects. The main goal of my dissertation is to empirically investigate Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified subjects in adverbial contexts, on the basis of statistical analyses of both corpus and experimental data. Within a functional-cognitive paradigm, the first three chapters offer a state of the art on ...

I present here a detailed appraisal of Luisa AmentaU+201Fs Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni (2003). AmentaU+201Fs study on verbal periphrases is a revised version of her Ph.D. thesis (1999), completed at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre under the supervision of Prof. dr. Marco Mancini. It offers a diachronic and typological confrontation of periphrastic constructions in both Greek and Latin.I ...

In this article, I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs U+201CbeU+201D (U+03B5U+1F30U+03BCU+1F77) and U+201ChaveU+201D (U+1F14U+03C7U+03C9) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The ...