Braad dikwijls bedruipende. Twee manieren om gelijktijdige handelingen aan te duiden: deelwoordconstructies en onder-constructies.

Abstract

The author of an instruction sometimes experiences the problem of how to present two simultaneous acts, because they can not be read in one and the same moment. In Dutch cooking recipes we often find two kinds of constructions, like in (1) and (2), that might solve this problem.

(1) Add the cream while stirring the soup (2) Add the cream under continuous stirring to the soup In this article the question is raised what the difference between these constructions might be. In a corpus with 110 expressions of simultaneous cooking acts several explanations are explored.

First the authors checked whether differences in the importance of both acts for a successful dish could be a relevant factor, which was not the case. Then they found that continuity was a more relevant factor, because in the under-construction they found more expressions of acts that could not be performed continuously. This brought them to the conclusions that both expressions differ in the aspect of relation between the two acts. In constructions like (1) both acts are stronger related to each other than in constructions like (2). They also claim that the second construction is younger than the first one.