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  1. The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, MIT, Norwegian, Norway

    Per-Kristian Halvorsen

  2. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

    William A. Ladusaw

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EDITOR'S NOTE-Linguistics and Philosophy normally publishes only papers reporting the results of original research, commentaries and discussions of such papers, and book reviews. This article, which consists of explanatory notes to Montague's paper ‘Universal Grammar’ (Montague, 1970a), has been included here because of its potential usefulness to the increasing number of scholars interested in Montague's work.

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Halvorsen, PK., Ladusaw, W.A. Montague's ‘universal grammar’: An introduction for the linguist. Linguist Philos 3, 185–223 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126510

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