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We would like to thank Noam Chomsky, Sandra Chung and Geoffrey K. Pullum for their help with this paper. In addition, the comments of three anonymous NLLT reviewers have led to improvements. Much of the material in sections 1–3 was presented by the second author at the 39th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1986. For their hospitality during the preparation of parts of this paper, the first author would like to thank the Syntax Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the second author, the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Texas at Austin. The first author's work was supported in part by NSF Grant BNS86-17274 to the University of California, Santa Cruz; the research of the second author was supported in part by a gift from the System Development Foundation.
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McCloskey, J., Sells, P. Control and a-chains in Modern Irish. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 6, 143–189 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00134228
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