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  <Title>Contextual processing of locative prepositional phrases</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we studied the contextual consequences of the referential interpretation of locative prepositional phrases through references by pronominal adverb &amp;quot;y&amp;quot;. We stated that locative prepositions are functions at a contextual level and that LPPs introduce new individuals into the discourse context.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> processing of our examples. The approach is classical and the reader can refer, for instance, to (van Eijck and Kamp, 1997) The results described here are used within a platform (made by our team) allowing to develop natural language understanding applications featuring a syntactical analysis phase, a lambda-calculus-based representation of sentences and a contextual processing of discourse (proforms and definite descriptions resolution).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We use DRT to resolve references, then DPL for a final discourse representation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Many difficult questions remain unanswered.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> First of all, it seems that only some LPPs provide such a productive ability at a contextual level and that it depends on both the locative preposition and the type of the embedded NP.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Classifying and characterizing these types of NPs remain to be done. Dynamic LPPs should also be studied. Besides we could study the behavior of other prepositional syntagms (temporal prepositions, for instance).</Paragraph>
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