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  <Title>A - ~-fll,,e (l:~ &lt; t</Title>
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4 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The analysis above of the interaction between the simple and progressive aspects and various kinds of verb shows that at least some of the phenomena dealt with by (Mo~ins and Steedman, 1988) can be explained without appealing to actions which change the meanings of the lexical and pre-lexical items involved. In the approach outlined here, every sentence reports a set of events. Aspect, aktionsart and temporal modeifiers then provide information which can be used to determine the cardinality of this set and to draw other conclusions about its temporal characteristics. Each component of the report is allowed to make a very weak contribution, and then the interactions between these contributions construct a larger, and more subtle, set, of conclusions. The fact that most sentences report singleton sets of events arises, in the absence of information to the contrary, by a process of implicature, though the adverb once is available to reinforce this conclusion if necessary.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> i have only dealt with a small subset of the relevant phenomena here. It seemed better to use the space available to explore a small number of cases in some detail than to cover a wider range without being convincing about any particular case. Similar analyses of other aspects and other aktionsarts are also easy to devise. Inventing analyses that cover specific phenomena is fairly easy. The difficult part is ensuring that all your analyses work at the same time and without introducing large nuinbers of spurious readings.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> It is important for my claim to have preserved compositionality that all the analyses in this paper have been obtained on the basis of the interpretations of the lexical items that appear in them and the semantics of the rules of combination, using a version of the system described in (Ramsay, 1992; Ramsay and Sch/~ler, 1995).</Paragraph>
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