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  <Title>Discourse Relations versus Discourse Marker Relations</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="77" end_page="77" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Although the analysis presented here is limited, it shows that the view of DMs as manifestations of very general communication-oriented DRs is oversimplifying. Some DMs are able to signal DRs only insofar as their own lexical constraints are satisfied. These constrains pertain to the semantic relation and to the argument types associated with particular DMs.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> An open question is whether the importance of semantic profile is particular to some class(es) of DMs.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Consequence connectives are inferential, in the sense of (Jayez and Rossari, 1998). The other classes of inferential DMs are oppositive (yet, however) and rephrasing (anyway). In subsequent work, we will address primarily th e following questions. Is the importance of a specific semantic profile particular to the category of inferential DMs? Are the profile restrictions inside the class of inferential DMs just the reflection of the inferential processes these DMs signal, or have they a (partly) independent status?</Paragraph>
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