genitive absolute
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Latin genitivus absolutus.
Noun[edit]
genitive absolute (plural genitives absolute or genitive absolutes)
- (grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
- in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
- in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
- in Avestan
- in Armenian
- in Tocharian, not so common
- in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
- rarely in Middle High German
Translations[edit]
independent genitive phrase
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Further reading[edit]
- Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333