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I wish to thank Denis Bouchard, Marie Labelle and Yannick Morin for their comments on earlier versions of this study. I thank Susan van Voorst for helping me with the data. I am grateful to two anonymous reviewers whose comments greatly helped improve the presentation of this paper's material. This paper was prepared in the context of the research project Théorie des paramètres, variations et arguments nuls of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant No. 410-89-1452).
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van Voorst, J. The aspectual semantics of psychological verbs. Linguist Philos 15, 65–92 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00635833
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