The semantics of mass-predicates

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Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-91

  Koslicki, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/0029-4624.00142     Document Type: Article

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