dative absolute

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Latin dativus absolutus. === Noun === dative absolute (plural datives absolute or dative absolutes) (grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present: in Germanic: in Old English it has been continued by Modern English but at some point became the nominative absolute in Old High German in Middle Dutch less frequently than the genitive absolute in Old Norse in Gothic in Old Church Slavonic in Old East Slavic and due to Old Church Slavonic influence in Russian as late as the 18th century in Lithuanian and Latvian === 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