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I would like to thank Alex Lascarides, Kurt Eberle, Hans Kamp, Michael Morreau, and the anonymous reviewers for Linguistics and Philosophy for many valuable comments on previous drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank IMSV Stuttgart Germany for research support while this paper was conceived and written.

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Asher, N. A default, truth conditional semantics for the progressive. Linguist Philos 15, 463–508 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630628

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