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I am indebted to Noam Chomsky, James Higginbotham, Gary Mar, Fernando Pereira, Stuart Shieber, Tom Wasow, and an anonymous NLLT reviewer for comments on an earlier draft.

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Ludlow, P. Topic... comment. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 10, 335–344 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133816

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