nominativeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈnɒm(ᵻ)nətɪv/,

/ˈnɒmn̩ətɪv/, U.S.

/ˈnɑm(ə)nədɪv/

Forms: Middle English nomenatyf, Middle English nominatif, Middle English nominatife, Middle English nominatiffe, Middle English nominatijf, Middle English nominatyf, Middle English nomynatyf, Middle English–1600s nominatiue, Middle English– nominative, 1500s nominatyue, 1500s nominatyve, 1500s nomnatiue (transmission error).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nominatif; Latin nōminātīvus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman nominatif, adjective and noun (13th cent. in grammatical sense) and Middle French nominatif, noun (13th cent.) and their etymon classical Latin nōminātīvus, adjective, in grammatical sense, in post-classical Latin also as noun, and as adjective in sense ‘bearing a person's name’ (early 12th cent.) < nōmināt- , past participial stem of nōmināre nominate v. + -īvus -ive suffix, after Hellenistic Greek ὀνομαστική (see onomastic adj.). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan nominatiu (a1150 as adjective in sense ‘renowned’ (also in form nomenatiu), c1210 as adjective and noun in grammatical sense), Italian nominativo (a1328 as noun in grammatical sense, 1804 as adjective), Spanish nominativo (a1428 as adjective in sense ‘nominal, in name’, 1492 as adjective and noun in grammatical sense).Compare the following early use of the Latin word (in senses A. 1 and B. 1) in an English context:OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 22 nominativvs ys nemniendlic: mid ðam casv we nemnað ealle ðing.OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 88 Gyf se nama byð gefeged of nominativo casv and of oðrum gebigedum case, þonne bið se nama decliniendlic on ða healfe, þe se nominativvs byð: hic praefectus urbis ðes portgerefa oððe burhealdor,..huic praefecto urbis, hunc praefectum urbis.OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 113 Þes nama hæfð twyfealdne nominativvm: quis and qui.

A. adj.

1. Grammar.

a. nominative case n. (in inflected languages) the case used for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives qualifying them, when functioning as the subject of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > nominative

nominative casea1387

nominativec1400

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 327 Þat ylond of Ynde hatte Tilis in þe nomenatyf caas and þe ilond of occean hatte Tyle in þe nominatyf [?a1475 anon. tr. nominatiue] caas.

c1434 J. Drury Eng. Writings in Speculum (1934) 9 80 (MED) Whenne xal þe superlatif degre ben formyd of þe nominatif case of his positif degre?

?1481 in E. Flügel Neueng. Lesebuch (1895) I. 297 Sum tymys they be verbys parsonallys and haue nominatiffe casys before them.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 416 And so we han the nominatif case.

1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iij The verbe shall accorde with his nominatyue..case.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. i. f. 86 The nominative case and the verbe be placed grammatically, according to the prescription of Syntaxis.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. ix. 355 The Nominative Case before the Verb, and the Accusative after.

1737 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 218 Iens in the Nominative Case was used more than once by Cicero.

1751 J. Harris Hermes i. ix. 175 Hence the reason why every Verb..has in Language a necessary Reference to some Noun for its Nominative Case.

1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxii. 792 Doubts had been entertained whether the words other person in this statute should be taken to be in the nominative or in the genitive case.

1886 T. Le M. Douse Introd. Gothic 209 Its inflectional characteristic is the Nominative case.

1928 Mod. Lang. Notes 43 15 The nominative case should be used with other real reflexive verbs, such as soi feire.

1991 Lang. in Society 20 466 When the noun inžynier ‘engineer’ is used to refer to females, the noun does not follow the usual declension and remains in the nominative case.

b. Of the nature of, relating to, or characteristic of a nominative or the nominative case. Cf. nominatival adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > nominative

rightc1590

subjective1794

nominative1808

nominatival1843

1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 199 These sentences, or clauses, thus constituting the subject of an affirmation, may be termed nominative sentences.

1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence 101 The nominative ending s..is connected with the demonstrative pronouns.

1913 R. A. S. Macalister Philistines i. 13 It has been suggested that it might be a nominative suffix of the Keftian language.

1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue iii. 35 Finnish has fifteen case forms, so every noun varies depending on whether it is nominative, accusative, allative, inessive, comitative, or one of ten other grammatical conditions.

2. Nominated; appointed by nomination.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointed by nomination

nominate?1457

nominated1548

nominative1660

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 124 The case is instant in Philip who was a nominative King.

1735 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 45 Even so this Nominative Court may pass with the learned as Justifiable.

1883 W. E. Baxter Winter in India (ed. 2) ii. 21 The municipality of Bombay is partly elective and partly nominative.

1892 Daily News 6 Aug. 4/8 The Second Chamber was still nominative in parts where it should have been elective.

1949 Far Eastern Surv. 18 129/1 The Act provides for the establishment of a legislative council, on a partly elective and partly nominative basis.

2001 Independent (Nexis) 14 Nov. In our brand of democracy change of government triggers change not only in elective posts but also appointive and nominative offices.

a. Of or relating to the giving of a name or names. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > [adjective]

onomastical1609

nuncupativea1620

denominativea1638

paronymical1653

nominative1844

onomastic1851

appellative1860

denominational1892

onomantic1914

1844 M. F. Tupper Heart xi. 115 Their latest noms de guerre will serve all nominative purposes as well as any other.

1974 Population Stud. 28 547 The first day deal [sic] with problems of representativity in nominative studies.

1986 ‘A. Burgess’ Homage to QWERT YUIOP 186 We have been taught to accept the nominative claim of Amerigo Vespucci as regards America.

b. Bearing the name of a person or people.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > bearing a name or names

nominal1802

onymous1864

onomatous1869

nominative1872

1872 Daily News 30 Sept. 3/3 A nominative personal invitation from M. Vogeli to meet M. Gambetta.

1930 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Internat. Affairs 9 92 Nominative shares were compulsory and, and their transference was subject to the approval of the board of Directors.

1975 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 5 725 The division of households in a nominative list depends on the enumerator who wrote them down.

1995 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 55 20 Such cases [sc. where death dates of both partners are missing] are rarer when we work from a nominative list of established households such as the 1747 tax roll.

c. nominative determinism n. the (humorous) theory or supposed phenomenon whereby one's name is deemed to influence one's choice of occupation, one's interests, or one's personal characteristics. [Apparently coined by C. R. Cavonius in an unpublished letter to the New Scientist: see quot. 1994.]

ΚΠ

1994 New Scientist 17 Dec. 76/3 This column discussed the hypothesis that authors tend to gravitate towards the area of research that fits their surname. Evidence supporting the hypothesis (which C. R. Cavonius suggests should be called Nominative Determinism) continues to pour in from readers.

1995 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 7 Aug. Science and medicine are rich motherlodes of nominative determinism: W. Frost wrote Heat Transfer at Low Temperatures. Daniel Snowman wrote The Polar Regions... Walter Russell Brain used to edit Brain.

2021 Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. 15 Meanwhile Radio 5 Live's breakfast show reported a lovely case of nominative determinism—a lawyer called Sue Yu.

B. n. Grammar.

1. The nominative case.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > nominative

nominative casea1387

nominativec1400

c1400 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 191 How mony case has yow? Sex... Þe nominat [if] , geniti[f], datif, acusatif, vocatif, þe ablatif.

c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. v. §3 The nominative hath no other noat but the particle of determination.

1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. iv. 281 The Nominative is that Case, without which there can be no regular..and perfect Sentence.

1768 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil 161 This is certainly used in the nominative plural.

1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. 216 The Nominative Plural and the Genitive Singular are, in the present language of England, identical.

1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence 101 The nominative and accusative have no formative particles to distinguish them.

1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 595/2 Let the reader but notice the habit of the author to add an apposition in the nominative to a word in an oblique case.

1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World ii. 87 The number of case forms for nouns is staggering... In addition to the familiar nominative, genitive, partitive, and ablative, there are also the elative, allative..and several others.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 479/1 Ossete has..developed a new declension system with nine cases, nominative, genitive, [etc.].

a. A word in the nominative case; a form which is the nominative case of a word.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > nominative > word or form

nominativec1450

c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 19 Qwan þe nominatyf endyth in -vs þe vocatyf most comunly schal endyn in -e.

1616 T. Granger Syntægma Græmmaticum sig. C8^v The accent is changed..the last Syllable being contracted: as Arpinâs..of Arpinâtis &c. their proper Nominatiues.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 448 Some words requiring a Nominative, others a Dative, others an Accusative.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 320 To put Nominatives instead of Oblique Cases.

1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. iii. 263 Hence..arises the Grammatical Regimen of the Verb by its Nominative, and of the Accusative by its Verb.

1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 51 (note) The preposition in this case..governs a nominative and a verb.

1889 Proc. Philol. Soc. 322 Brugmann explains the Nominatives ager, ācer as standing for *agros, *ācris.

1919 Amer. Hist. Rev. 25 12 Commune consilium has been found but once in the nominative.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Aug. 20/1 In the sentence ‘I am Flotus,’..I is the subject, am is the linking verb and Flotus is the predicate nominative.

†b. A subject to a verb. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > subject

supposite1585

subject1615

actor1721

nominative1808

subjective1829

1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 205 That a sentence, or part of a sentence, may be the nominative to a verb, is undoubtedly true.

3. nominative absolute n. a construction in which a nominative noun or pronoun followed by an (adjectival or non-finite verbal) adjunct forms an adverbial phrase (see quots. 1858, 1949). Cf. absolute adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > clause > other specific types of clause

clausulec1449

protasis1588

illative1604

apodosisa1638

incident proposition1725

subordinate clause1809

subclause1823

adjective clause1834

subject clause1840

nominative absolute1843

that-clause1845

head clause1915

contact-clause1927

content clause1927

wh-clause1957

1843 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1844) 1 153 Other idioms..have the indeterminate pronoun preceded by a nominative absolute.

1858 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. 97 This adverbial relation may be sustained... By a substantive (accompanied by some attributive adjunct) in the nominative absolute; as ‘The sun having risen, we commenced our journey’.

1916 E. A. Sonnenschein New Eng. Gram. iii. 44 The nominative absolute construction is an equivalent of an adverb-clause: We sitting, as I said, the cock crew loud.

1949 M. Bailey & G. Horn Eng. Handbk. vii. 266 Begin some sentences with a nominative absolute... Dr. Carver having proved his point, sweet potatoes and peanuts were planted in abundance.

1999 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Features section) 31 He enlivens the tedium of teaching the nominative absolute with a bag of tricks he'd developed during WWII.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2022).

单词	nominative
释义	nominativeadj.n. Brit. /ˈnɒm(ᵻ)nətɪv/, /ˈnɒmn̩ətɪv/, U.S. /ˈnɑm(ə)nədɪv/ Forms: Middle English nomenatyf, Middle English nominatif, Middle English nominatife, Middle English nominatiffe, Middle English nominatijf, Middle English nominatyf, Middle English nomynatyf, Middle English–1600s nominatiue, Middle English– nominative, 1500s nominatyue, 1500s nominatyve, 1500s nomnatiue (transmission error). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nominatif; Latin nōminātīvus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman nominatif, adjective and noun (13th cent. in grammatical sense) and Middle French nominatif, noun (13th cent.) and their etymon classical Latin nōminātīvus, adjective, in grammatical sense, in post-classical Latin also as noun, and as adjective in sense ‘bearing a person's name’ (early 12th cent.) < nōmināt- , past participial stem of nōmināre nominate v. + -īvus -ive suffix, after Hellenistic Greek ὀνομαστική (see onomastic adj.). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan nominatiu (a1150 as adjective in sense ‘renowned’ (also in form nomenatiu), c1210 as adjective and noun in grammatical sense), Italian nominativo (a1328 as noun in grammatical sense, 1804 as adjective), Spanish nominativo (a1428 as adjective in sense ‘nominal, in name’, 1492 as adjective and noun in grammatical sense).Compare the following early use of the Latin word (in senses A. 1 and B. 1) in an English context:OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 22 nominativvs ys nemniendlic: mid ðam casv we nemnað ealle ðing.OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 88 Gyf se nama byð gefeged of nominativo casv and of oðrum gebigedum case, þonne bið se nama decliniendlic on ða healfe, þe se nominativvs byð: hic praefectus urbis ðes portgerefa oððe burhealdor,..huic praefecto urbis, hunc praefectum urbis.OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 113 Þes nama hæfð twyfealdne nominativvm: quis and qui. A. adj. 1. Grammar. a. nominative case n. (in inflected languages) the case used for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives qualifying them, when functioning as the subject of the verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > nominative nominative casea1387 nominativec1400 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 327 Þat ylond of Ynde hatte Tilis in þe nomenatyf caas and þe ilond of occean hatte Tyle in þe nominatyf [?a1475 anon. tr. nominatiue] caas. c1434 J. Drury Eng. Writings in Speculum (1934) 9 80 (MED) Whenne xal þe superlatif degre ben formyd of þe nominatif case of his positif degre? ?1481 in E. Flügel Neueng. Lesebuch (1895) I. 297 Sum tymys they be verbys parsonallys and haue nominatiffe casys before them. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 416 And so we han the nominatif case. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iij The verbe shall accorde with his nominatyue..case. 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. i. f. 86 The nominative case and the verbe be placed grammatically, according to the prescription of Syntaxis. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. ix. 355 The Nominative Case before the Verb, and the Accusative after. 1737 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 218 Iens in the Nominative Case was used more than once by Cicero. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. ix. 175 Hence the reason why every Verb..has in Language a necessary Reference to some Noun for its Nominative Case. 1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxii. 792 Doubts had been entertained whether the words other person in this statute should be taken to be in the nominative or in the genitive case. 1886 T. Le M. Douse Introd. Gothic 209 Its inflectional characteristic is the Nominative case. 1928 Mod. Lang. Notes 43 15 The nominative case should be used with other real reflexive verbs, such as soi feire. 1991 Lang. in Society 20 466 When the noun inžynier ‘engineer’ is used to refer to females, the noun does not follow the usual declension and remains in the nominative case. b. Of the nature of, relating to, or characteristic of a nominative or the nominative case. Cf. nominatival adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > nominative rightc1590 subjective1794 nominative1808 nominatival1843 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 199 These sentences, or clauses, thus constituting the subject of an affirmation, may be termed nominative sentences. 1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence 101 The nominative ending s..is connected with the demonstrative pronouns. 1913 R. A. S. Macalister Philistines i. 13 It has been suggested that it might be a nominative suffix of the Keftian language. 1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue iii. 35 Finnish has fifteen case forms, so every noun varies depending on whether it is nominative, accusative, allative, inessive, comitative, or one of ten other grammatical conditions. 2. Nominated; appointed by nomination. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointed by nomination nominate?1457 nominated1548 nominative1660 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 124 The case is instant in Philip who was a nominative King. 1735 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 45 Even so this Nominative Court may pass with the learned as Justifiable. 1883 W. E. Baxter Winter in India (ed. 2) ii. 21 The municipality of Bombay is partly elective and partly nominative. 1892 Daily News 6 Aug. 4/8 The Second Chamber was still nominative in parts where it should have been elective. 1949 Far Eastern Surv. 18 129/1 The Act provides for the establishment of a legislative council, on a partly elective and partly nominative basis. 2001 Independent (Nexis) 14 Nov. In our brand of democracy change of government triggers change not only in elective posts but also appointive and nominative offices. 3. a. Of or relating to the giving of a name or names. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] onomastical1609 nuncupativea1620 denominativea1638 paronymical1653 nominative1844 onomastic1851 appellative1860 denominational1892 onomantic1914 1844 M. F. Tupper Heart xi. 115 Their latest noms de guerre will serve all nominative purposes as well as any other. 1974 Population Stud. 28 547 The first day deal [sic] with problems of representativity in nominative studies. 1986 ‘A. Burgess’ Homage to QWERT YUIOP 186 We have been taught to accept the nominative claim of Amerigo Vespucci as regards America. b. Bearing the name of a person or people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > bearing a name or names nominal1802 onymous1864 onomatous1869 nominative1872 1872 Daily News 30 Sept. 3/3 A nominative personal invitation from M. Vogeli to meet M. Gambetta. 1930 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Internat. Affairs 9 92 Nominative shares were compulsory and, and their transference was subject to the approval of the board of Directors. 1975 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 5 725 The division of households in a nominative list depends on the enumerator who wrote them down. 1995 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 55 20 Such cases [sc. where death dates of both partners are missing] are rarer when we work from a nominative list of established households such as the 1747 tax roll. c. nominative determinism n. the (humorous) theory or supposed phenomenon whereby one's name is deemed to influence one's choice of occupation, one's interests, or one's personal characteristics. [Apparently coined by C. R. Cavonius in an unpublished letter to the New Scientist: see quot. 1994.] ΚΠ 1994 New Scientist 17 Dec. 76/3 This column discussed the hypothesis that authors tend to gravitate towards the area of research that fits their surname. Evidence supporting the hypothesis (which C. R. Cavonius suggests should be called Nominative Determinism) continues to pour in from readers. 1995 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 7 Aug. Science and medicine are rich motherlodes of nominative determinism: W. Frost wrote Heat Transfer at Low Temperatures. Daniel Snowman wrote The Polar Regions... Walter Russell Brain used to edit Brain. 2021 Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. 15 Meanwhile Radio 5 Live's breakfast show reported a lovely case of nominative determinism—a lawyer called Sue Yu. B. n. Grammar. 1. The nominative case. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > nominative nominative casea1387 nominativec1400 c1400 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 191 How mony case has yow? Sex... Þe nominat [if] , geniti[f], datif, acusatif, vocatif, þe ablatif. c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. v. §3 The nominative hath no other noat but the particle of determination. 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. iv. 281 The Nominative is that Case, without which there can be no regular..and perfect Sentence. 1768 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil 161 This is certainly used in the nominative plural. 1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. 216 The Nominative Plural and the Genitive Singular are, in the present language of England, identical. 1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence 101 The nominative and accusative have no formative particles to distinguish them. 1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 595/2 Let the reader but notice the habit of the author to add an apposition in the nominative to a word in an oblique case. 1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World ii. 87 The number of case forms for nouns is staggering... In addition to the familiar nominative, genitive, partitive, and ablative, there are also the elative, allative..and several others. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 479/1 Ossete has..developed a new declension system with nine cases, nominative, genitive, [etc.]. 2. a. A word in the nominative case; a form which is the nominative case of a word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > nominative > word or form nominativec1450 c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 19 Qwan þe nominatyf endyth in -vs þe vocatyf most comunly schal endyn in -e. 1616 T. Granger Syntægma Græmmaticum sig. C8^v The accent is changed..the last Syllable being contracted: as Arpinâs..of Arpinâtis &c. their proper Nominatiues. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 448 Some words requiring a Nominative, others a Dative, others an Accusative. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 320 To put Nominatives instead of Oblique Cases. 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. iii. 263 Hence..arises the Grammatical Regimen of the Verb by its Nominative, and of the Accusative by its Verb. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 51 (note) The preposition in this case..governs a nominative and a verb. 1889 Proc. Philol. Soc. 322 Brugmann explains the Nominatives ager, ācer as standing for *agros, *ācris. 1919 Amer. Hist. Rev. 25 12 Commune consilium has been found but once in the nominative. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Aug. 20/1 In the sentence ‘I am Flotus,’..I is the subject, am is the linking verb and Flotus is the predicate nominative. †b. A subject to a verb. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > subject supposite1585 subject1615 actor1721 nominative1808 subjective1829 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 205 That a sentence, or part of a sentence, may be the nominative to a verb, is undoubtedly true. 3. nominative absolute n. a construction in which a nominative noun or pronoun followed by an (adjectival or non-finite verbal) adjunct forms an adverbial phrase (see quots. 1858, 1949). Cf. absolute adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > clause > other specific types of clause clausulec1449 protasis1588 illative1604 apodosisa1638 incident proposition1725 subordinate clause1809 subclause1823 adjective clause1834 subject clause1840 nominative absolute1843 that-clause1845 head clause1915 contact-clause1927 content clause1927 wh-clause1957 1843 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1844) 1 153 Other idioms..have the indeterminate pronoun preceded by a nominative absolute. 1858 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. 97 This adverbial relation may be sustained... By a substantive (accompanied by some attributive adjunct) in the nominative absolute; as ‘The sun having risen, we commenced our journey’. 1916 E. A. Sonnenschein New Eng. Gram. iii. 44 The nominative absolute construction is an equivalent of an adverb-clause: We sitting, as I said, the cock crew loud. 1949 M. Bailey & G. Horn Eng. Handbk. vii. 266 Begin some sentences with a nominative absolute... Dr. Carver having proved his point, sweet potatoes and peanuts were planted in abundance. 1999 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Features section) 31 He enlivens the tedium of teaching the nominative absolute with a bag of tricks he'd developed during WWII. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2022). < adj.n.a1387
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