I am using the terms internal and external in the sense of Halliday – Hasan [Halliday, M. A. K. – Hasan, R. (1976). Cohesion in English. London: Longman. ] In the case of temporal markers, external temporal relations have to do with the sequence of events in real and narrative time, whereas internal relations have to do with the text itself and are created through the text itself via the sequencing of propositions in linear order.
- Romaine (1988), a pag.148