with-absolutes

[nschneid]

Absolute clauses with with may contain verbless predication. Now documented here.

These EWT sentences need to be fixed:

• [x] With these operating standards implemented worldwide
• [x] With beneficent Jupiter in your sign
• [x] With Colin Powell around
• [x] BC Gas won't sign the confirms with the rep in
• [x] if the sound is still there with the modem off
• [x] if the trouble goes away with the modem off

[nschneid]

....as well as these 6 sentences:

• [x] The decision was made by ISO upper management with one goal in mind: to keep the lights on.
• [x] They were chased back into Laos and Cambodia with the ARVN in hot pursuit.
• [x] Such a convenient location as well with coffee shop and bradley food and beverage right around corner.
• [x] I would have had to because with the economy the way it is i aint haves much monies fo repairs round the House....
• [x] The end of the year is a time for compiling statistics - and according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the year 2003 has been bad news for plants and non-human animals, with many species now closer to extinction than ever before.
• ~I have visited Dr. Cooper's office twice and I am very impressed with how friendly and polite the staff is.~
  • For now ignoring the interrogative free relative clause complements of a standard preposition (this one is SCONJ/case but maybe that's the ideal analysis and we shouldn't use SCONJ just because the complement of a preposition is a free RC)

[nschneid]

• [x] Third, with the "new age" Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in charge of the investigation
• [x] With a Pizza Hut, IHOP, 3 Starbucks, Chilis , Panera, and Chipotle on campus ALONE
• [x] with your leg flopping
• [x] With President Karzai certain to win the elections
• [x] MY DAUGHTERS BUFFALO WINGS CAME OUT WITH A FLY ON IT
• [x] If I went into the "pre-university" direction with business administration in mind
• [x] There are 2 more located outside of the main continent with Alaska way to the north
• [x] It's fine for mass-market chocolate, but with companies like Scharffen Berger, TCHO, and smaller artisan chocolate makers in the area, why?

[nschneid]

What about these pseudopossessive constructions? with ~ having + item + location

Adnominal attachment

• [x] Possibly a freshwater tank with a ton of different species in there.
• [x] we took a clay flower pot with a hole in the bottom
• [x] for example a 3x5x4 tank with light on one side
• [x] two rooms with a small opening between them
• [x] suspicious papers with names and social security numbers on it.
• [x] Leaving a jar with a dozen black worms in it

Adverbial attachment

• depictives: acl
  • [x] put [a piece of steel pipe] [in the middle of it]/obl [with a cap on the bottom]/acl?
  • [x] Yo mama`s so fat, she was born with a silver shovel in her mouth.
  • [x] the confirmation goes out with the wrong legal name on it
  • [x] They also start the day with no nicks or dings in their fins.
  • [x] I walked out with 5 inch long hair on the top, 2 inch long hair on the sides, and 1.5 in the back.
  • [x] With a smirk on her face she told me
  • [x] walk out with crap all over my hair
  • [x] MY DAUGHTERS BUFFALO WINGS CAME OUT WITH A FLY ON IT
• advcl
  • [x] the shower was dirty with other peoples hair in it

@amir-zeldes what do you think? GUM has at least one of these as a verbless clause ("But I'm pretty sure it's just cough drops with some vitamin C in it.") and at least 2 as nmods ("That insulation out there with the mice shit in it?", "that big red box with the dragons on it").

[nschneid]

I suppose these are verbless clauses because you can say "a T-shirt with me on it" or "I bought a T-shirt with myself on it", and PPs don't usually modify personal pronouns. It looks like CGEL agrees (example [iv]):

[nschneid]

• [x] they would never drive the car with me in it

(there are a few examples that are already correct, e.g. with an ADJ or PP as the embedded predicate)

[nschneid]

• [x] Find a comfortable place on the floor and sit with your legs crossed.
• [x] there have been tensions with Iran’s nuclear program with word coming this week that a deal was reached
• [x] Then 1 lap at a walk around the arena with both my legs pulled out as far as I can

[nschneid]

I annotated these as advcl but should they be considered depictives, and thus annotated as acl dependents of the predicate?

• Find a comfortable place on the floor and sit with your legs crossed.
• MY DAUGHTERS BUFFALO WINGS CAME OUT WITH A FLY ON IT
• If I went into the "pre-university" direction with business administration in mind

Also the pseudopossessives listed above.

[amir-zeldes]

I agree these are clauses, will correct the two GUM cases. "sit with your legs crossed" I think is advcl (manner, adverbial not adnominal), same for admin in mind. Buffalo might be depictive (it is the state of the wings, not the manner in which they came out)