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Absolutes with present participles (2) • Option 2: with-absolutes containing present participles = multiple source constructions, subtype: syntactic blend (“the formal and functional features of different lineages are recombined into a new construction”) (http://marivs.com/pdf/Workshop_descriptions.pdf) – Follows existing [With [NP (being) PP/AdjP/…] structure – Follows existing non-augmented (without with) absolute construction with non-finite verb Non-augmented absolutes containing present participles are the most frequent type (83.6% of all absolutes contained a present participle as predicative element) (Kortmann 1995: 195) 38
In any case, analogy with non-augmented absolutes probably played major role in the development of the different types of with- absolutes (cf. Kortmann 1991) 39
Page 1 and 2: With-absolutes Historical Developme
Page 3 and 4: Structure of the presentation • D
Page 5 and 6: Defining with-absolutes (2) Example
Page 7 and 8: Defining with-absolutes (4) • Oth
Page 9 and 10: Earlier research (2) • Van der Lu
Page 11 and 12: Research Questions (2) • How did
Page 13 and 14: • English corpora: Methodology (2
Page 15 and 16: Results (1) • Absolute frequencie
Page 17 and 18: Results (3) Structural variety of p
Page 19 and 20: • Verb phrases: - Present partici
Page 21 and 22: • Adverbial phrases: Results (7)
Page 23 and 24: Results (9) • Frequencies of the
Page 25 and 26: 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Results (11)
Page 27 and 28: Development of structural diversity
Page 37: Absolutes with present participles
Page 41 and 42: Conclusion • Development of with-
Page 43 and 44: References • “absolute construc
Page 45 and 46: Corpora used • CLMETEV: “The Co
Page 47 and 48: Interpretation • Noun phrases ≈

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