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    Peter Ludlow

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Earlier versions of this work were presented at the 2nd annual Irvine Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Cornell University, and the University of California (Berkeley). For comments and helpful discussion, we are grateful to Mark Aronoff, Max Cresswell, Mark Crimmins, Donald Davidson, Irene Heim, James Higginbotham, Jaakko Hintikka, Norbert Hornstein, Ernest LePore, Robert May, Stephen Neale, Paul Pietroski, Barry Schein, and Gabriel Segal.

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Larson, R.K., Ludlow, P. Interpreted logical forms. Synthese 95, 305–355 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063877

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