English A

absolute construction

construction absolu
  • NASH 1968 4

    NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

  • MATTHEWS 1981 234

    MATTHEWS, P.H. (1981) Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • TRASK 1993 2

    TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

  • QUIRK etal. 1985 1120f. (absolute clause)

    QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

  • HARTMANN & STORK 1972 1-2 (= nominative absolute, dangling participle, absolute phrase)

    HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

  • ELL 5087 (= absolute clause, absolute phrase)

    The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

  • PEI & GAYNOR 1954 4

    PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

  • MATTHEWS 1997 2

    MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • CRYSTAL 2001 1-2

    CRYSTAL, David. (2001) A Dictionary of Language, 2nd Ed Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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