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    Alice Ter Meulen

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Reprinted from Groenendijk,Janssen, and Stokhof eds., Formal Methods in the Study of Language, Mathematical Center Tract Series, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1980.

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Meulen, A.T. An intensional logic for mass terms. Philos Stud 40, 105–125 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00646389

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