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61Portuguese grammar — Portuguese grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Portuguese language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages especially Galician and the other languages of Iberian Peninsula. It is a synthetic, fusional language. Nouns,… …
62Mediopassive voice — The mediopassive voice is a grammatical voice which subsumes the meanings of both the middle voice and the passive voice. Languages of the Indo European family (and many others) typically have two or three voices of the three: active, middle, and …
63Periphrasis — In linguistics, periphrasis is a device by which a grammatical category or relationship is expressed by a free morpheme (typically one or more function words modifying a content word), instead of being shown by inflection or derivation. For… …
64Celtic languages — Branch of the Indo European language family spoken across a broad area of western and central Europe by the Celts in pre Roman and Roman times, now confined to small coastal areas of northwestern Europe. Celtic can be divided into a continental… …
65Greek language — Indo European language spoken mostly in Greece. Its history can be divided into four phases: Ancient Greek, Koine, Byzantine Greek, and Modern Greek. Ancient Greek is subdivided into Mycenaean Greek (14th–13th centuries BC) and Archaic and… …
66Semitic languages — Family of Afro Asiatic languages spoken in northern Africa and South Asia. No other language family has been attested in writing over a greater time span from the late 3rd millennium BC to the present. Both traditional and some recent… …
67Colloquial Welsh morphology — The morphology of the Welsh language shows many characteristics perhaps unfamiliar to speakers of English or continental European languages like French or German, but has much in common with the other modern Insular Celtic languages: Irish,… …
68Voice (grammar) — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …
69périphrastique — [ perifrastik ] adj. • 1842; periphrastic 1555; de périphrase ♦ Didact. Qui abonde en périphrases. Style périphrastique. ♢ Qui constitue une périphrase. Expression, tournure périphrastique. ● périphrastique adjectif Qui tient de la périphrase,… …
70verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …
