L-Parameter: Markers for Concomitance (CONCOM)

From Contribution: Adverbial subordinators in European languages

[German 'q, wobei p']: (i) alternative terms: accompanying circumstance, accompaniment; (ii) two separate situations p and q stand side by side; there is no indication of a specific semantic relation holding between p and q; all that needs to be secured is the unity of space and time (e.g. [German Ich nahm das Buch vom Regal, wobei mir die Vase herunterfiel. 'I was taking the book from the shelf when the vase fell down']; The man came in, holding his hat in one hand.)

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