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A great many people have given me extremely valuable suggestions which affected the final form of this paper. I wish to especially thank Noam Chomsky and Dan Osherson both for getting me thinking about the issues in this paper in the way that I do, and for giving me very detailed and helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper. I am also indebted to the following people for useful comments: Emmon Bach, Eve Clark, Herb Clark, David Evans, Vicki Fromkin, Ron Kaplan, Steve Lapointe, Julius Moravcsik, Dick Oehrle, Barbara Partee, Bill Paxton, Stan Peters, Tom Roeper, Justine Stillings, and Steve Weisler. Any shortcomings are of course my responsibility.
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Wasow, T. On constraining the class of transformational languages. Synthese 39, 81–104 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485408
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