genitive absolute

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Latin genitivus absolutus. === Noun === 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 ==== === Further reading === Bauer, Brigitte (2000), Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333