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I have received support from various funding agencies during the preparation of this note; their names have been withheld for fear of retaliation. I do, however, wish to thank Ned Block and Geoff Pullum for helpful comments on an earlier version, and Chuck Fillmore, from whom I stole the best play on words in this piece. Any errors of fact or judgement should be regarded as purely typographical.
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Wasow, T. Topic...comment:. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 3, 485–491 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133286
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