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  <Title>Can text structure be incompatible with rhetorical structure?</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have discussed various examples Of extraposition. This phenomenon is due to various factors: the complexity of the material (example 4), the presence of logical information (5), the use of referring expressions to access information at various degrees of accessibility in the text structure (5,6,9), and the use of particular rhetorical strategies (7,8). This last group of examples concerns.a concession constr.uction similar to the one discussed by Grote et al. (1997), namely the substitution concession. This type of concession groups together the conceded part A and the explanation C but leaves the conclusion B unverbalised. The difference in the case of examples 7 and 8 is that A and C are grouped together but B is required to follow them because there is not enough information for the reader to infer B from A and C.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The extraposition phenomenon shows that the nucleus-satellite distinction is not the only factor influencing the segmentation of the message. In example 10, the injunction you should not stop taking Elixir obviously expresses the main intention of the author. However, the fact that the subordinated concession is placed after its main clause makes it available for further expansion. The sometimes competing informational and intentional roles of discourse segments have been at the centre of the debate over the nucleus-satellite distinction (Moore and Pollack, 1992; Moser and Moore, 1996; Bateman and Rondhius, 1997); the accessibility of discourse segments on the right frontier of a discourse structure is a phenomenon that has already been discussed by several researchers (Webber, 1991; Asher, 1993). Extraposition provides a useful and sometimes important means of rearranging complex material in an abstract discourse representation in order to satisfy the constraints posed by linearisation into text.</Paragraph>
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