Re: Absolute constructions

Jim Henry wrote:

>Mike Ellis 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
Thanks!
English seems to have a convenient way of handling these by using "with".
The first four examples on the Bartleby page can all have "with" added:
"with the paint now dry ..." etc.

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?

M

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