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I would like to thank Sjaak de Mey for some stimulating discussions on these topics, in connection with his forthcoming dissertation on dyadic quantification and related linguistic phenomena.

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Van Benthem, J. Polyadic quantifiers. Linguist Philos 12, 437–464 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00632472

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