Hi Rett,
I also thought of an absolute case and was looking for a noun.
Nina.
op 01-09-2005 09:01 schreef rett op rett@...:

> Did you get an answer about niite? It almost looks like a locative absolute,
> though then I'd expect tasmi.m niite or similar.
>
> Tr: When he was led to the place of execution by the guards, who had bound him
> tightly...
>
> In that first clause the agent (kattaa) is the guards (raajapurisehi) which
> differs from the agent of the rest of the sentence, the woman (itthi). So
> locative absolute would be the right choice. The mystery is that locative
> absolutes are supposed to contain a noun (or pronoun) & a participle, but here
> we just have the participle.