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Thanks to: David Dowty, Nick Haddock, Mark Hepple, Jack Hoeksema, Polly Jacobson, Mark Johnson, Aravind Joshi, Einar Jowsey, Dale Miller, Michael Moortgat, Glyn Morrill, Michael Niv, Dick Oehrle, Remo Pareschi, Ellen Prince, Mats Rooth, Beatrice Santorini, Yves Schabes, Vijay Shankar, Stuart Shieber, Arnim von Stechow, Anna Szabolcsi, Bonnie Lynn Webber, David Weir, and the anonymous referees. Some of the ideas in Section 3.1 appear in a different form in Steedman, 1989a. Various stages of the research were supported by grants from ESPRIT (project 393) to CCS, University of Edinburgh, from the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Pennsylvania sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and from NSF grant IRI-10413 A02, ARO grant DAA6-29-84K-0061 and DARPA grant N0014-85-K0018 to CIS, University of Pennsylvania.

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Steedman, M.J. Gapping as constituent coordination. Linguist Philos 13, 207–263 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630734

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