Glossary term T

Temporal Relation

A temporal relation is an interpropositional relation that communicates the simultaneity or ordering in time of events or states.

  • Subordinating conjunctions such as when or while
  • Meanwhile
  • At that time

More specific concepts within temporal relation.

  1. Longacre 1983, 94
  2. Beekman, Callow, and Kopesec 1981, 80–81
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