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I am grateful to the SSRC (Grant No. HR 5767) for funding the research reported here. This paper is a distant descendant of an earlier paper, ‘Comparatives, Intensionality and Contexts’, and I would like to also acknowledge a grant from the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research which enabled me to do some work on comparatives at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in 1977. Of the many people who have contributed to the ideas expressed here, Hans Kamp has been undoubtedly the most important. Over the last few years, I have profited enormously from many conversations with him on the topic of comparatives. I am also particularly grateful for the comments and criticisms I have received from Gerald Gazdar, Frank Heny, Ruth Kempson, Christopher Longuet-Higgins, Barry Richards, Ivan Sag, and an anonymous referee of this journal. Last of all, I would like to thank Jane Blackett for cheerfully undertaking to type the penultimate draft.
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Klein, E. A semantics for positive and comparative adjectives. Linguistics and Philosophy 4, 1–45 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351812
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