Abstract
My purpose in this book is to investigate the semantic properties of absolute constructions, under which heading are subsumed the three constructions in (1).
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(1)
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a.
The free adjunct construction:
Walking home, he found a dollar.
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b.
The nominative absolute construction:
His father being a sailor, John knows all about boats.
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c.
The augmented absolute construction:
With the children asleep, Mary watched TV.
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a.
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Stump, G.T. (1985). The Semantic Variability of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes. In: The Semantic Variability of Absolute Constructions. Synthese Language Library, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5277-5_1
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