With-absolutes - Niederlandistik
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Interpretation<br />
• Noun phrases ≈ AS-phrases<br />
35. <strong>With</strong> Reagan as President, the Soviets do not need military<br />
superiority; they will simply outsmart us. (TIME 1984)<br />
36. <strong>With</strong> Reagan President, the Soviets do not need military superiority.<br />
• As (or als in Dutch) might serve as a<br />
‘prepositional copula’ (Declerck 1991): makes<br />
the qualifying relation more explicit<br />
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