nominative absolute

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin nominativus absolutus.

Noun

nominative absolute (plural nominatives absolute or nominative absolutes)

1. (grammar) A grammatically independent element of a sentence conveying additional circumstances; present:
   1. English; realized as a noun phrase and a participle or adjective
   2. in Ancient Greek, less frequent than the accusative absolute which is less frequent than the genitive absolute
   3. in Late Latin

Translations

element of a sentence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絕對分詞子句／绝对分词子句 (juéduì fēncí zǐjù), 绝对分词子句 (juéduì fēncí zǐjù)

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• Finnish: absoluuttinen nominatiivi
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• nominative absolute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nominativus pendens
• ablative absolute

Further reading

• He, Qingshun, Yang, Bingjun (2015) Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective. A Corpus-Based Study, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN
• Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333