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Lexical Selection and Quantificational Variability in Embedded Interrogatives

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Lahiri, U. Lexical Selection and Quantificational Variability in Embedded Interrogatives. Linguistics and Philosophy 23, 325–389 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005522702169

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