Re: going without "without"

RE:    W/O W/O

1.    Could you use an adverbial construction:    The woman walks stickless?

This might be more awkward with heavy noun phrases, but this obstacle is not
insurmountable.

The poodle that your aunt criticized you for buying?   The woman walks
it-less.

(What shall we call "it-less"?    A pronominal adverb?)


2.    Adding a privative case:    Instead of doing this, you could add a
privative meaning to the list of meanings you've got for your current 6
cases, and redistribute those meanings among 7 cases, so that your new case
would have privative meaning + some meanings that were formerly in your
other cases.

3.    Negating comitatives.    You're right.   'without' is not the same as
'not with,' for the reason you state eariler.   Witness these two sentences:

a)    The troops will get sick without the pills.

b)    The troops will get sick, not with the pills.

4.    Periphrastic constructions:   absence expressed with a noun.   e.g.
from you:

>  lit. "The old woman walks with the lack of a stick"

Periphrastic expressions can be streamlined.   You don't need multi-noun
constructions for "lack of a stick";   you can compound a noun with a noun
meaning "absence."

e.g.    The old woman walks with a stick-ghost.

Jim