Re: going without "without"

Gerald Koenig wrote:

> Matt's example is interesting to me from the point of view of
> what I will call DeLancy-Nilenga for want of a better name; it's the
> reductionist grammar where every verb is a move or a location, modified
> by adverbial constructions. I'm still exploring this hypothesis, which I
> set out in detail in a previous "case,almost allnoun, ngl" post.
>
> "She left without saying goodbye"
She left, didn't say goodbye. She was serial-verbing (by my analysis,
such as it is) without adverbs, or maybe with an awkward negated
transitive-adverb (i.e. preposition, equivalent to a serial verb)
like "non-sayingly-of goodbye". Oblique cases don't appeal to me,
there are never enough; serial-verbs/equivalents are unlimited.