The Pragmatics of "Unruly" Dative Absolutes in Early Slavic

This chapter examines some uses of the dative absolute in Old Church Slavonic and in early recensional Slavonic texts that depart from notions of how Indo-European absolute constructions should behave, either because they have subjects coreferential with the (putative) main-clause subjects or becaus...

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Main Author: Daniel E. Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2011-08-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/45