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  <Title>SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION OF JAPANESE SENTENCES WITH DAKE (ONLY)</Title>
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6 Concluding Remarks
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Our nlain concern in this paper is the difference in intcrpretatlons between p-dake-sentences and dake-psentences, and its distribution with regard to particles with which dake interacts and properties of predicates involved. We started by reviewing some of the previous accounts of this phenomenon and pointed out their difficulties, summarizing our basic hypotheses which cover the semantics and thc pragmatics for these sentences.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> By taking a closer look at related examples, we demonstrated that both de-phrases and &amp;quot;possible&amp;quot; predicates play crucial roles for the difference in available interpretations, suggesting interaction of semantic and pragmatic processes that would explain this difference. Finally, we have presented a general picture of how our interpretive procedure works for these sentences.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> While most of our observations were restricted to Japanese sentences with dake, our approach can naturally be extended to the corresponding English sentences with only. We presume that tile interpretive procedure we proposed in this paper is a universal one.</Paragraph>
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