Alice Myrtle Ashley Jones, 1916-2006

[Michael Erwin]

I'm new here and not particularly sure, but Bennett 9.5 discusses the  
dative absolute.

On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:33 AM, ualarauans wrote:

<snip>
> Weggins falthanans – is it an accusativus absolutus in the
> sense "with folded wings"? Or you mean it be shortened from *weggins
> falthanans [habandei], lit. "she having folded the wings"? I don't
> remember exactly if there's some analogue of that absolute
> accusative construction in the Bible. Couldn't it be dative as well,
> e.g. *weggim falthanaim? Or maybe it's *izai weggins [izos]
> falthanai? The next strophe could be grammatically paralleled in a
> way like that: *weggim falthanaim, hairtin sweibandin. I don't
> intend this to be a kind of "correction", the original variant is
> very good, in particular I like the causative formation, nice way to
> enlarge the vocabulary from the language's own sources.
<snip>




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