The "Subject + Adverbial Adjunct" Construction in English

Blending of the absolute construction (subject + nonfinite/verbless predicate) and the "restrictor + adverbial adjunct" construction (e.g., He was repeatedly attacked by terrorists, first in New York, then in Chicago.) yields a new construction of the form "subject + adverbial adjunct" (e.g., The two men were executed in Baghdad, John before the war, (and) Bill during the war.) via intermediate subconstructions that are ambiguous between the source and the target constructions. The semantic notion of "part-whole" relation plays a crucial role in the syntax and semantics of the relevant constructions and in the process of blending