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I would like to thank my audience at the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium and the anonymous referees for interesting feedback. The present title was kindly suggested by an anonymous referee.

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Muskens, R. Combining Montague semantics and discourse representation. Linguist Philos 19, 143–186 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00635836

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