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I have benefited from discussions with Richard Larson, Stanley Peters, Hans Kamp and Nicholas Asher. Nicholas Asher also read an earlier draft; his comments improved the paper significantly. I would like to thank the Center for Cognitive Science of the University of Texas at Austin for its generous research support.

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Bonevac, D. Semantics for clausally complemented verbs. Synthese 59, 187–218 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869417

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