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  <Title>A model for the interaction of lexical and non-lexical knowledge in the determination of word meaning</Title>
  <Section position="9" start_page="176" end_page="176" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Up to now we merely picked a collection of phenomena with an impact on the referential potential of words ranging from lexical properties to 'genuine' discourse phenomena. We presented a moderately general framework designed in a way that each of these phenomena has a place to fit in. The example analysis of &amp;quot;saw&amp;quot; illustrated the interaction of elements of our model and thereby pointed to problematic aspects that yet have to be resoved. A crucial problem is to distinguish between linguistic aspects of lexical meaning which the lexicon has to account for from non-linguistic aspects which derive from relations in conceptual structure. The next step in the evaluation of our model requires the determination of criteria which help to keep linguistic and non-linguistic aspects of the semantic level apart. The ultimate goal of this distinction is to narrow down the flow of information that passes through the semantic 'interface' between linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge. If this strategy succeeds it should be possible to adapt the conceptual knowledge to different domains of application not affecting linguistic knowledge as the basis for capabilities of discourse understanding.</Paragraph>
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