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Partitives, Double Genitives and Anti-Uniqueness

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Barker, C. Partitives, Double Genitives and Anti-Uniqueness. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 16, 679–717 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005917421076

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