Re: Absolute constructions

Mike Ellis <NihilSum@...> asked:

>What's an "absolute construction"?
These links explain the term with English examples.

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/001.html

http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1999.4/msg00552.html

I need to do some more work on gjax-zym-byn to support this.
I encountered a couple of things like this in translating the
parable of the Good Samaritan - where the Greek had a participial
verb phrase modifying a finite clause, I had to translate it with two
finite clauses joined by a conjunction, because I have no participles
as such in gzb.  Or rather, I had a participial construction that has dropped
out of use because I wasn't happy with it.  When I eventually
figure out how I'm going to handle participles, I'll probably revise
this translation.