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  <Title>Temporal Connectives in a Discourse Context</Title>
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9 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> By concentrating on a simple but pervasive phenomenon concerning the interpretation of temporal connectives, we have extended a formal mechanism to show how interacting discourse context, WK and LK determine which presupposed eventualities can be accommodated. The way in which accommodation is handled depends on the content of the presupposed clause, and we pointed to some interesting behaviour in this connection.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> On the one hand, when accommodation by discourse attachment fails, accommodation by temporal addition can still succeed. In such cases, a purely temporal reading of the subordinate clause is forced, and this leads to very weak coherence constraints for the discourse as a whole. These weak constraints are akin to those in classical treatments of temporal connectives in DRT; however, our analysis still differs somewhat, eschewing as it does reference times. On the other hand, even when accommodation by discourse attachment succeeds, there is no guarantee that the text is coherent; presupposition accommodation is a necessary, but insufficient, part of the process of discourse structure retreival.</Paragraph>
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