Bare Plurals, Situations and Discourse Context
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Edinburgh University for their helpful comments and suggestions. I am also grateful to the participants of ITALLC 96, the anonymous referees for that conference and for this volume, and to the audience of a seminar I gave at the University of Texas at Austin in September 1996, for many perceptive questions and comments on this paper and related work.
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