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    Barry Richards

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The first five sections of this paper were worked out in discussion with James Peter Thorne, without whose assistance they would not have been written. Their present form is in no small measure the product of our numerous and lengthy arguments over data generated from two quite different points of view. It should be said, however, that the responsibility for the conclusions and suggestions is entirely mine.

It is Thorne's intention to write a sequel to this paper, provisionally under the title ‘Adverbs and Interpretive Semantics’. At one point we had thought of attempting to publish the two papers together, perhaps in a jointly authored monograph. However, in the hope of stimulating discussion which may prove useful for another related project we have agreed that my paper should be submitted for earlier publication.

I wish to thank Jonathan Cohen, Robert Stalnaker and Neil Tennant, whose careful reading of earlier drafts has resulted in a number of revisions. As on other occasions, I am very grateful to Kit Fine for his generosity in attempting to see what I wanted to say and then helping me to say it.

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Richards, B. Adverbs: From a logical point of view. Synthese 32, 329–372 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484782

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