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The aim of this paper is to present in a rigorous way the syntax and semantics of a certain fragment of a certain dialect of English. For expository purposes the fragment has been made as simple and restricted as it can be while accommodating all the more puzzling cases of quantification and reference with which I am acquainted.1
Much of the research reported here was supported by United States National Science Foundation Grant GS-2785. I am indebted to Mr. Michael Bennett, Mr. Harry Deutsch, and Mr. Daniel Gallin for helpful comments.
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Montague, R. (1973). The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English. In: Kulas, J., Fetzer, J.H., Rankin, T.L. (eds) Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2727-8_7
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