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Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites?

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Events and Grammar

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  1. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

    Angelika Kratzer

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  1. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Susan Rothstein

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Kratzer, A. (1998). Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites?. In: Rothstein, S. (eds) Events and Grammar. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4_8

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