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  <Title>A Dynamic Temporal Logic of Events, Intervals and States for Nominalization in Natural Language</Title>
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3 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The analysis of nominalization in English presented in this paper is based on two assumptions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> (i) Non-stative verbs denote changes (ii) The notion of change comprises different aspects From (i) it follows that any theory must admit to model the intuitive notion of change. This seems to require some form of Dynamic Logic or some other form of programming logic in which the development of something going on in time can be represented. The second assumption seems to require the use of a (many-) sorted model such that the domains corresponding to the different sorts are systematically related to each other. Each domain must be equipped with some structure. The different aspects that the notion of change comprises are then linked to the different domains and their corresponding structures. Thus, besides sorting the universe, there must be enough structure in order that the different aspects can be modeled in an adequate way. This makes it necessary to use some form of a decompositional analysis of verbs.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In the present approach the decomposition is done first with respect to the argument structure: n-place verbs are analyzed as denoting n+2-ary relations, and second with respect to the semantic content of a verb. This content is split into a dynamic and a static component.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The dynamic component denotes some type of transition between states which is brought about by an event. This component is therefore closely related to the first decompositional component. The static component concems the relationship between the arguments that are introduced by the decompositional analysis and the 'ordinary', subcategorized arguments.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> This relationship is expressed by thematic relations. null</Paragraph>
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