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I would like to thank Irene Heim, Jim Higginbotham, Richard Larson and Chris Tancredi for comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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Moltmann, F. Measure adverbials. Linguist Philos 14, 629–660 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00631962

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