Abstract
Abstract It will be claimed that given the highly situationally restricted context triggering the Absentive meaning under any of the available construals, the occurrence of the Ab-sentive is not a grammatical category. Nor is there a viable diachronic relation with the PP-Progressive in German and other languages such as English. Admittedly, this leaves unaccounted for the fine gradual distance-semantic difference between the Bare Infinitive and the PP-Progressive in German. What appears to provide a further argument against the general categorical status of this construal is the fact that reading does not emerge under any construction type in the Slavic languages.
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