periphrastic

A situation where two words are used together to create meaning. For example, the adjective “beautiful” is put into the superlative degree by adding a free morpheme “most”. Together, these words make up a periphrastic.

In Greek, a form of ειμι is used with the participle to express a verbal idea. It is similar to the English progressive tense. BBG 30.14

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