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  <Title>A COMPOSITIONAL APPROACH TO THE TRANSLATION OF TEMPORAL EXPRESSIONS IN THE ROSRTTA SYSTEM</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The author would like to thank all members of the Rosetta team, particularly Jan Landsbergen and Franciska de Jong, for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This work was supported in part by a grant from the Nederlandse HerstructureringsmaatschappiJ (NRHEM). Notes I) I use the definition of &amp;quot;aspect&amp;quot; of Comrie (1976), but I will take his term &amp;quot;situation&amp;quot; as referring to the interval E in relation to the reference interval R E and consider only two possibilities: &amp;quot;perfective&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;imperfective&amp;quot; aspect. The notion &amp;quot;perfect aspect&amp;quot; which I call 'retrospective aspect&amp;quot; should be accounted for by other relations. Probably~ by relating R E to R S with the relation &amp;quot;until&amp;quot;. 2) This point resembles the point S&amp;quot; in Oversteegen and Verkuyl (1985). 3) It is possible that some languages have complex deictic rules that indicate for example a &amp;quot;past event with present relevance&amp;quot;. This is similar to a &amp;quot;present with retrospective PAST&amp;quot;, but differs In that the interval R E is not until, but before R e. At the moment I will Ignore the e~-xtra meaning&amp;quot; ~nd treat them with a deictic past rule, because this phenomenon seems to \]lave to do with more pragmatic factors such as &amp;quot;distance with respect to the event from the speaker's viewpoint&amp;quot; or knowledge of the world like the present existence of persons or objects.</Paragraph>
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