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* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the CUNY, Graduate Center, SALT V, the University Paris 7, and the University of Tuebingen. For the present version, I would like to thank especially audiences at the workshop ‘New Perspectives on Plurals’, Paris, June 2004 and the Workshop on Metaphysics, Edinburgh, July 2004 for comments. The completion of the paper was made possible by a research readership from the British Academy 2002–2004.

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Moltmann, F. Part Structures In Situations: The Semantics of Individualand Whole*. Linguist Philos 28, 599–641 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-005-2142-2

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