<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Pun Ho Lui,</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>In my Japhug grammar (<a href="https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295" target="_blank">https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295</a>),
the meaning "right before" is treated in the section on what I call
"immediate precedence" ("be about to") §25.3.2.2 p.1399-1400. It seems
to me that your example <i>Right before I sleep, I brush my teeth</i>. could be reformulated as <i>As I was about to go to sleep, I brushed my teeth</i>.
without changing the truth conditions of this sentence (if I am
mistaken here, please don't hesitate to comment). In my translations, I
sometimes use "just before..." to convey this meaning. It can be
expressed by four main constructions: an adverb (tɤkʰa), the
morphological proximate jɯ- (44), the periphrastic proximate and a
construction with the verb mda "be the time (144).</div><div><br></div><div>(44) [ɕɤr jɯ-jɤ-azɣɯt] tɕe (...) ɯ-kɤrme nɯ pjɤ-ɕɯ-ɴqoʁ \\<br>night \{prox}-\{aor}-arrive \{lnk} { } \{3sg}.\{poss}-hair \{dem} \{ifr}-\{caus}-hang<br></div><div></div><div>‘Just before the night fell, [the witch] hung her hair [on the window of the tower].’</div><div>p.1400<br></div><div><br></div><div>(144) tɕe ɯʑo si tɤ-mda kóʁmɯz nɤ nɯ [mɯ-pjɤ-pe] nɯ ko-tso ri ɲɤ-maqʰu ɲɯ-ŋu. <br>\{lnk}
\{3sg} die:\{fact} \{aor}-be.the.time only.then \{add} \{dem}
\{neg}-\{ifr}.\{ipfv}-be.good \{dem} \{ifr}-understand \{lnk}
\{ifr}-be.late \{sens}-be</div><div>‘Just before dying, he understood that [what he had done] was not good,<br>but it was too late.’</div><div> p.1305</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this is what you are looking for, best wishes,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 22 avr. 2024 à 04:41, Juergen Bohnemeyer via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8943810809646875616">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear Joe Pun Ho Lui – If you are looking for adverbial connectives expressing ‘right before’, I got nothing. However, there are languages that have anaphoric temporal remoteness markers. In such languages,
immediate past markers convey ‘right before’ when used anaphorically (as opposed to with utterance time). A case in point is Yucatec (Bohnemeyer 2023). (Another language in which anaphoric temporal remoteness markers have been attested is Luganda (Klecha &
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Bohnemeyer, J. (2023). Elicitation and documentation of tense and aspect.
<i>Language Documentation and Preservation</i> <i>Special Publication</i> 26: 59-98.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Klecha, P., & M. R. Bochnak. (</span><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">2015). Temporal remoteness and relativity. Talk presented at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">To make things clear, the referred ‘right before’ encodes a temporal relationship, as in<i> Right before I sleep, I brush my teeth</i>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Dear all,<br>
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In a number of cross-linguistic works on adverbial subordination (e.g. Olguin Martinez, 2022; Kortmann, 1997; Hetterle, 2015), the logically possible subordinating connective ‘right before’ is not covered. In my experience of reading grammar books, I don’t
feel like I have stumbled on any dedicated marker/construction for ‘right before’.<br>
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To my knowledge, the encoding of ‘right before’ can be, obviously, with an adverbial ‘right'+’before’. Another strategy is ‘as soon as…before’ in Cantonese.<br>
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I am wondering if you have stumbled on ‘right before’ in other languages.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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