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The material in this paper has been presented before audiences at Salzburg Comparative Syntax Festival, USC, MIT and UC Berkeley. Those audiences have all contributed helpful comments. I am also indebted to Joseph Aoun, Mürvet Enç, Osvaldo Jaeggli, George Lakoff, David Lightfoot, David Pesetsky and two anonymous NLLT reviewers for useful discussion of the ideas in this paper. The biggest thanks are due to Nigel Fabb, with whom the central notion of this paper was formulated. All mistakes, of course, are inalienably mine.
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Roberts, I.G. Agreement parameters and the development of English modal auxiliaries. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 3, 21–58 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00205413
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