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Part of the material presented in this paper appeared as Groenendijk and Stokhof (1981). We would like to thank Renate Bartsch, Elisabet Engdahl, Roland Hausser, Fred Landman, Alice ter Meulen, Ieke Moerdijk, Zeno Swijtink, Henk Verkuyl, and in particular Johan van Benthem, Theo Janssen, Lauri Karttunen and the anonymous referees of Linguistics and Philosophy for their comments and criticisms on earlier versions, which have led to many improvements.

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Groenendijk, J., Stokhof, M. Semantic analysis of wh-complements. Linguistics and Philosophy 5, 175–233 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351052

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