Little Texts: Absolute Nominal Groups: Ambiguous Collocations

Halliday (1994: 396):

Little Texts: Absolute Nominal Groups: Long Strings Of Classifiers

Halliday (1994: 396):

Little Texts: Absolute Nominal Groups: Clause-Like Premodifiers

Halliday (1994: 396):

Little Texts: Unattached Nominals

Halliday (1994: 395-6):

Little Texts Not Selected For Mood

Halliday (1994: 394):

Absolute

Halliday (1994: 96):

Minor Clauses: The Absolute

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 196):

… a nominal group which could be either Subject or Complement in an agnate major clause is said to have the function Absolute. This is not assigned either to Mood or Residue. The concept of ‘Absolute’ function is also relevant to headlines, labels, lists, and suchlike.