Spencer, Andrew (2006), 'Periphrasis.' In Brown, Keith (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (vol. 9), 287-294. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Linguistic Notions

• Periphrasis
  1. Introduction The term 'periphrasis' broadly refers to constructions in which a syntactic sequence of two (or more, at least in principle) words can be considered to represent the in...