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Periphrastic verbal expressions in European Portuguese (EP) The author’s intention is to show difficulties related to the definition and the classification of periphrastic constructions in Portuguese as well as to present the range of verbal periphrases in EP. At the same time author points out the fact that the value of periphrastic constructions is influenced by the tense of auxiliary verb, the class of verbal predicate, quantification of nominal sintagmas and adverbial expressions.