[Lingtyp] Encoding "right before" across languages

[Pun Ho Lui]

To make things clear, the referred ‘right before’ encodes a temporal relationship, as in Right before I sleep, I brush my teeth.

> Pun Ho Lui <luiph001 at gmail.com> 於 2024年4月22日 上午9:26 寫道：
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> Dear all,
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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’.
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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.
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> I am wondering if you have stumbled on ‘right before’ in other languages.
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> Thank you.
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> Warmest,
> Joe Pun Ho Lui
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