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  <Title>Temporal Information and Discourse Relations in Narratives: the role of French connectives puis and un peu plus tard</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper deals with the way temporal connectives affect Temporal Structure as well as Discourse Structure in Narratives. It presents a contrastive study of French connectives puis (then, afterwards) and un peu plus tard (a bit later) within the framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. It shows that puis is a marker of the Narration discourse relation, whereas un peu plus tard blocks Narration and licenses only a weaker discourse relation, that can be considered as a &amp;quot;weak Narration&amp;quot; involving only temporal succession. In addition, puis blocks Result, while un peu plus tard does not.</Paragraph>
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