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  <Title>Multiple Discourse Relations on the Sentential Level in Japanese</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="792" end_page="792" type="concl">
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The LUD formalism that describes DRSs in an underspecified way also pertains to dealing with multiple discourse relation constructions, which are common in Japanese. The problem is to distinguish the discourse relations which take the wide scope relative to other scope-taking elements on the one hand and to have them underspecified among each other, on the other. The solution has a general character; several scope-taking elements can go into scope relations collectively if they belong to the same semantic class. The scope among them is underspecified again. This treatment reflects the fact that each element can introduce a different partition of the same sentence.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have also stated an interesting semantic constraint on the resolution of multiple discourse relations which seems to prevail over the syntactic c-command constraint: discourse relations should be scopally compared with each other on the criteria whether the restriction (antecedent part) or to the scope (conclusion part) of a discourse relation has an anaphoric force.</Paragraph>
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