diff --git a/packages/language-service/ivy/adapters.ts b/packages/language-service/ivy/adapters.ts
index bd02eaa562..9582177175 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/ivy/adapters.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/ivy/adapters.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ export class LSParseConfigHost implements ConfigurationHost {
     return p.extname(path);
   }
   resolve(...paths: string[]): AbsoluteFsPath {
-    return this.serverHost.resolvePath(this.join(paths[0], ...paths.slice(1))) as AbsoluteFsPath;
+    return p.resolve(...paths) as AbsoluteFsPath;
   }
   dirname<T extends PathString>(file: T): T {
     return p.dirname(file) as T;
diff --git a/packages/language-service/ivy/test/adapters_spec.ts b/packages/language-service/ivy/test/adapters_spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd3ae1d8f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/language-service/ivy/test/adapters_spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright Google LLC All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
+ */
+
+import * as ts from 'typescript/lib/tsserverlibrary';
+
+import {LSParseConfigHost} from '../adapters';
+
+describe('LSParseConfigHost.resolve()', () => {
+  it('should collapse absolute paths', () => {
+    const p1 = '/foo/bar/baz';
+    const p2 = '/foo/bar/baz/tsconfig.json';
+    const host = new LSParseConfigHost(ts.sys as ts.server.ServerHost);
+    const resolved = host.resolve(p1, p2);
+    expect(resolved).toBe('/foo/bar/baz/tsconfig.json');
+  });
+});