Words constitute our communication, be it oral or written. To express anything in the two mentioned ways, we group a number of words that result in the statement, sentence or phrase that we want to say. However, we do it in a neat way that makes those who receive our message understand what is being said.
Although many things seem logical and are carried out simply because it is believed to be so; They have a study that indicates the reason for their nature, functions and other things that respond to their existence.
This is the case of the links that, although we practice and exercise them, but when we ask ourselves what they are, there is no answer. And thanks to linguistic disciplines They are not only in charge of giving rules but also of studying and analyzing language, we can know certain names of speech (written or oral) that we ignored or believed to be null.
Before focusing on the specification, one must conceptualize what a morpheme is; which is a word, also known as a morpheme or theoretically "grammatical particle." This fulfills a syntactic function that consists of the union of words or sentences with others, that is, it is about a word that joins two sentences or words.
Furthermore, the name 'nexus' indicates according to its meaning "combination" between two parts that are separate. It should be noted that it is or is something typical of the morphosyntactic linguistic discipline and not with what is known as a 'linguistic connector' that would already enter the semantic-discursive.
The links go further, to the metaphorical, seeking through concepts and terms to bring together ideas, thus achieving a coordinated and coherent gathering of several words in a sentence. These are usually short words, however, it may be the case that they are composed of more than one.
Like many things, these have a classification or typologies that respond according to their way of using it. There is a group of coordinating links in which are the so-called copulative, disjunctive, adversative, distributive and explanatory links.
The other group is called subordinate links and in this there are more; there are the temporal, modal, of place, causal, consecutive, conditional, final, comparative and concessive. But in this post we will limit ourselves to explaining what the storms are about and what they are.
What are temporary links and how do they work?
Here it would be two words or sentences that we will unite over time and not precisely of a climatological sense but to which the question "when?" And it is answered in the present, past or future.
Conjunctive adverbs (when, just, while) and conjunctive phrases (as soon as, at the time, before (of) that, first that, after (of) that, while, whenever, as soon as, at the same time that, meanwhile) can be replaced by the 'when' being this one of the most used temporary links to join. Although this would also depend on what type it is.
We will do an example, passing two different sentences and secondary ideas to be a main and unique sentence, over time:
"He retired from the house" and "the sun came out." If we want these two sentences to be in the same one, simply place the 'when' in the middle of the two, which would result in “he left the house when the sun rose”.
Notably not always the temporal link will be in the middle of the two sentences or words, It may be the case that they are at the beginning or at the end and in this sense it is necessary to make the caveat that the link can also be of more words and not just one.
Example: “While we played, mother made food” / We played and mother made food at the same time
What types are there?
In turn, this specific one also has an internal and minor classification that includes three links, those of anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority.
- In advance: are those that refer to something that happened before another event. For example: First, before, before, before, first, among others.
- Of simultaneity: These on their own speak of two events that happened at the same time. Examples: Meanwhile, meanwhile, at the same time, among others.
- Afterwards: They are those that deal with an action that happened after another. Examples: After, then, later, then, among others.
Examples of temporary links
- When we ate, you slept.
- I was bathing when she ate.
- It started to rain when I was coming to my house
- I was not alone when You walked in without giving any notice.
- When she was sleeping the mosquitoes stung her.
- While I exercised, listened to music.
- Was eating at the same time who played.
- Before Come out, I told you what to do
- I was running as soon as was able to get out of the house.
- Before eating was sleeping.
Examples in literary fragments
When exemplifying it in a simple way with quite short sentences, it is understandable, however, we do not always communicate so precisely and in the same way we use the use of temporal links.
Next, we will cite some authors who in their literary texts allow us to appreciate some of this linguistic discipline.
“Carlos Argentino pretended to be amazed at I don't know what beauty of the installation of light (which, without a doubt, he already knew) and he told me with some severity:
- Bad to your degree, you will have to admit that this place is comparable to the most encumbered ones in Flores.
Reread me, después, four or five pages of the poem. (…) He bitterly denounced the critics; after, more benign, equated them to those people "who do not have precious metals or steam presses, rolling mills and sulfuric acids for the minting of treasures, but who can indicate to others the place of the treasure."
- Borges, The Aleph.
“Word by word, absorbed by the sordid dilemma of the heroes, letting himself go towards the images that were coordinated and acquired color and movement, he witnessed the last meeting in the cabin of the mountain. First the woman entered, suspicious; now the lover was arriving, his face bruised by the blow of a branch. "
- Cortázar, Continuity of Parks.
He slammed his back and sped away, not looking back until he reached the crest of the last blade. Entonces he turned, lifting his hat on his right hand. And that was the last thing the friends saw, when going down the hill the figure disappeared. "
- Stelardo, Don Julio.
Fun facts
It is important to bring up that temporal elements are not always or are represented in such a visible way as connectors and in this type of cases, they are outside the sentence or its sentence analysis; so they begin to fulfill a syntactic function that is called particularly as a circumstantial complement of time.
The circumstantial complement of time is nothing more than the syntactic function mentioned above, which is executed or carried out by a noun phrase or by a prepositional phrase, which responds to some semantic circumstance of time, place or mode to the verb of which it is a complement.
We will leave below other literary fragments that serve as exemplification to put you in context with what is being exposed.
When the cronopios go on a trip, they find the hotels full, the trains have already left, it rains loudly, and the taxis do not want to take them or they charge very high prices. The Cronopians are not discouraged because they firmly believe that these things happen to everyone, and at bedtime they say to each other: "The beautiful city, the most beautiful city." And they dream all night that there are big parties in the city and that they are invited. The next day they wake up very happy, and this is how the chronopians travel.
Cortazar, Trips.
One day, while Ananías and a yellow dog and a skinny prodigy were waiting for the morning milk together with the grandmother who held her forehead at the gate and milked, the mare ran out of milk forever.
Delgado Aparain, And so a Pambelé is born and does not disappear.