simultaneous (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample He sang while she played the banjo
http://example.org/cx/hasExample He sang and she played the banjo
Definition the semantic relation between two events where two events temporally coincide or overlap. Example: He sang while she played the banjo is a figure--ground construal of the simultaneous relation in an adverbial clause construction, and He sang and she played the banjo is a complex figure construal of the relation in a coordinate clause construction. (Section 15.3.1)
altLabel overlap
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.3.1
Function of depictive complex predicate
Function of manner complex predicate
Function of temporal construction
Subtype of event relation

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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