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  <Title>ITERATIg-E OPERATIONS</Title>
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I INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The system of the iterative operations, which makes a part of aspectual operation system, is based on the assumption that the general mechanism of repetition is language independent and can be reduced to a small number of operations, though language expressions of repetition are different from language to language. It must be noticed that even in one language there are usually several means to express repetitious events. We know that &amp;quot;il lui cognait la t~te contre lemur&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;il lui a cogn~ deux ou trois fois la t~te contre lemur&amp;quot;, the examples given by W. Pollak, express the same event.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have also linguistic means for iterative expressions on all linguistic levels: morphological, syntactical, semantic, pragmatic etc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> As the general form of repetition we use ~ = (~i~ in which ~ is the whole event, ~ia single occurrence of a single event and* an iteration indicator. For example: : (a series of) explosions took place 93: a single explosion took place : indefinit number of times ~i denotes actually a proposition describing a single event S i. ~ sign will be replaced later by a singIe or complex operator or operators, which operate(s) on ~i-We hope also to be able to give various expressions to the same event and for that purpose we are planning to have a set of interpretation rules.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The language mainly concerned is Japanese, but in this article examples are given in French, in English or in German.</Paragraph>
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