Relative Absoluteness: The Case of Participial Clauses in Latin

The aim of this article is to reopen the investigation ablative absolute in Latin and analyse construction its use from one angle, namely, coreferentiality rules. examples for analysis have been taken Gallic Wars. As has noticed before, several works, texts written by classical authors, such as Caesar or Cicero, allows us formulate a rule concerning coreferentiality. far syntactical concerned, requires an be — unsurprisingly absolute, i. e., non-coreferential. This seems increasingly ignored later authors. However, deeper taking into account not only but also semantical shows that absoluteness so after all, even Latin. ablativus absolutus may seen forerunners change occurred between late author proposes hypothesis independent similar development constructions different languages suggest there kind interlinguistic tendency substitute nominal phrases subordinate clauses, especially spoken language.