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Plurals, All, and the Nonuniformity of Collective Predication

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Brisson, C. Plurals, All, and the Nonuniformity of Collective Predication. Linguistics and Philosophy 26, 129–184 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022771705575

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