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I would like to thank Neil Elliott, Irene Heim, Hans Kamp, Edward Keenan, William Ladusaw, Richard Larson, Howard Lasnik, Peter Ludlow, Barbara Partee, Barry Richards, Barry Schein and Gila Sher for considerable help in the thought processes that went into this paper. Thanks are also especially due to Johan van Benthem and German Chierchia for their extensive comments. Material from this paper has been presented to colloquia at MIT, Sophia University and The University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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May, R. Interpreting logical form. Linguist Philos 12, 387–435 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00632471
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