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  <Title>tions of Pragmatic Principles: Implications for Theories of Linguistic and Cognitive Representation. Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson. Language and</Title>
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5 Concluding remarks
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The framework presented here allows for taking also pragmatic reasoning processes into account in computing interpretations. Without a principled account of inferential principles NLP applications have to fail. The rather sketchy picture presented here might serve as a starting point for identifying semantic and pragmatic factors in the aspecto-temporal system of Russian. A lot of problems remain to be solved. Corpus analyses and the appropriate annotation of verbs, aspect markers and adverbials are the prerequisite for formulating rules that enable the systematic derivation and computation of the readings. Furthermore, the interaction of the different factors has to be studied in a wider domain, i.e. on the paragraph level.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The selection-theoretic and pragmatic assumptions outlined in this paper can be claimed to be cross-linguistically valid, but languages differ in their respective contribution of semantics and general pragmatic reasonig.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This approach, that combines generality of linguistic expressions with systematic pragmatic principles, can be extended to further instances of grammatical underspecification. The system established in this paper allows for a systematic  The readings listed here involve different degrees of context-dependency.  Note that this general-factual reading arises only in special contexts, and in the present example is difficult to translate into English. comparison of languages on a uniform basis that permits a systematic derivation of the respective readings and a principled account account of the differences.</Paragraph>
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