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CHAPTER 3. OTHER COGNITIVE APPROACHES 131<br />

3.7 Conclusion<br />

There is nothing contradictory in any of the approaches discussed in this chap-<br />

ter, or between them <strong>and</strong> <strong>Frame</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong>s; rather, they are complementary. As so often<br />

happens in linguistics, we nd that di erent approaches including <strong>Frame</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong>s, mental<br />

spaces, analysis in terms of metaphor, <strong>and</strong> semantic type hierarchies h<strong>and</strong>le di erent pieces<br />

of the puzzle well. I will continue to use frame semantics as the basis of most of my analysis,<br />

but we must bear in mind that no one theory provides a really good account of all the facts.

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