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Grammatical non-specification: The mistaken disjunction ‘theory’

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Atlas, J.D. Grammatical non-specification: The mistaken disjunction ‘theory’. Linguist Philos 7, 433–443 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00631076

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