caeruleancentaur wrote:
>In the most recent issue of "The Journal of Indo-European Studies" is
>an article entitled "Absolute Constructions in Slavic: Case Diversity
>and Orginality" by Daniela S. Hristova.
>
>It was fascinating to learn that different IE languages use different
>cases for their absolutes. Slavic uses the dative, Latin uses the
>ablative, Sanskrit uses the locative, and Greek the genitive.
[...]
>With this in mind, I want to add absolute constructions to Senyecan.
>And since these constructions occur in different cases in the
>daughter languages, I feel I can have several different forms of the
>absolute construction to express nuances.
What's an "absolute construction"?
M