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  <Title>Aspect and Discourse Structure: Is a Neutral Viewpoint Required?*</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We showed that Smith's notion of a neutral view-point is crucial for German. In particular, we investigated the effects this viewpoint has on a discourse level and compared it with English. It may be concluded from this analysis that discourse structure differs depending on the language. A discourse grammar developed for English cannot easily be applied to German. This cross-linguistic account gives prominence to the underlying concepts instead of focussing only on the surface structure which is unalterably bound to the peculiarity of a single object language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> 7Figure 2 shows a simplified representation of the accomplishment event type. No account will be given of the treatment of PPs like nach Hause for the time being.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In our analysis for German, we therefore highlighted the following two properties which can be stipulated regarding the neutral viewpoint: * The end point of a situation is beyond the focus of this viewpoint. Default information given by the situation aspect may be overridden by the context. 8 * The neutral viewpoint contains the initial point of the situation. Backgrounding - a typical function of the imperfective view where the initim point is not included - is therefore not applicable for this viewpoint.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Furthermore, the proposed formalisation provides an account which can handle the discussed phenomena within an implementation; this is ongoing work.</Paragraph>
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