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Thanks to Jim Higginbotham, Robert May, Amy Pierce, Jamie Rucker, Karen Ryan, and Ivan Sag for helpful discussion. Special thanks are due to Richard Larson for a number of key suggestions (noted in the text), as well as for comments on various drafts of this paper. Special thanks also are due to Dan Finer, Thomas Wasow and to an anonymous L&P reviewer for extensive comments on earlier drafts.

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Ludlow, P. Implicit comparison classes. Linguist Philos 12, 519–533 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00632474

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