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Re: Absolute constructions

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Sunday, April 17, 2005, 3:14
Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> wrote:
> Disturbing realisation: I have no way of doing this in Rhean. BIG syntactic > hole there. Problem is that the non-finite forms (infinitive, adverbial > participle, etc) cannot have an explicit subject in Rhean. There's got to be > some way around that. But what?
Perhaps it's the same construct used to express the agent of a passive verb? *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/