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  <Title>The Chinese Aspect System and its Semantic Interpretation</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have introduced the basic simple primary aspect forms and a set of secondary types of the unmarked-durative aspect V+Zhao (V+zhe) in our Chinese aspect system, described the semantic temporal relations of complex aspect forms in terms of temporal logic theories, and proposed principled semantic conditions required for aspect combination. In respect of aspect, English and Chinese are semantically rather different. As future work we are now investigating potential applications of our description in several areas. In addition to the generation of Chinese texts per se, we are also considering the use of multilingual generation in, for example, contrastive reference grammars, and language teaching.</Paragraph>
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