We extended the CQL formalism in a way that enables a meet/union query to be placed at any position in the standard query syntax.
we can exploit both the extended meet/union and within/containing queries to make a contextual search for e. g. all sentences where the verb have occurs in a −5 to +5 context of a pronoun and concurrently some noun occurs in a −3 to +3 context of the adjective blue: 6 Parsed Corpora Our larger corpora do not currently contain phrase structure or similar markup, and for this reason the paper focuses on queries which do not assume it.