Definition
A sequential relation is a temporal relation in which the event or state of a latter-expressed proposition is communicated to have occurred after the event or state of a prior-expressed proposition.
Examples
- at once
- soon
- next time
Sources 3
- Halliday and Hasan 1976, 261–262
- Longacre 1983, 98–99
- Longacre 1985, 244