A thorough examination of the nature and function of absolute constructions in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit.

1. The AC so far; 2. Early Greek; 3. Early Latin; 4. The Sanskrit locative absolute and its syntactic surroundings; 5. Proto-Indo-European roots of ACs.

Antonia Ruppel is the Townsend Senior Lecturer in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit Languages at Cornell University, New York.