nominative absolute

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Latin nominativus absolutus. === Noun === nominative absolute (plural nominatives absolute or nominative absolutes) (grammar) A grammatically independent element of a sentence conveying additional circumstances; present: in English; realized as a noun phrase and a participle or adjective in Ancient Greek, less frequent than the accusative absolute which is less frequent than the genitive absolute in Late Latin ==== Translations ==== === 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