title: Relative Absoluteness: The Case of Participial Clauses in Latin
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metadata.value: Spieralska, Beata
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T17:10:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T17:10:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Spieralska B. Relative Absoluteness: The Case of Participial Clauses in Latin. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (1), 90–99.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.108
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33759
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The aim of this article is to reopen the investigation of the ablative absolute in Latin and to
  analyse this construction and its use from one angle, namely, the coreferentiality rules. The
  examples for analysis have been taken from the Gallic Wars. As has been noticed before, in
  several works, the use of the absolute construction in texts written by classical authors, such
  as Caesar or Cicero, allows us to formulate a rule concerning its coreferentiality. As far as the
  syntactical coreferentiality is concerned, the classical rule requires an absolute construction
  to be — unsurprisingly — absolute, i. e., non-coreferential. This rule seems to be increasingly
  ignored by later authors. However, a deeper analysis taking into account not only syntactical
  but also semantical coreferentiality shows that the absoluteness of the construction is not so
  absolute after all, even in classical Latin. The examples of such use of the ablativus absolutus
  may be seen as forerunners of the change that occurred between classical and late Latin. The
  author proposes a hypothesis that an independent but similar development of the use of absolute
  constructions in different languages may suggest that there is a kind of interlinguistic
  tendency to substitute nominal phrases for subordinate clauses, especially in spoken language.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: absolute constructions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: coreferentiality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nominal phrase
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conjunct participle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Relative Absoluteness: The Case of Participial Clauses in Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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