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Adverbial NPs: Bare or Clad in See-Through Garb?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

James D. McCawley
James D. McCawley*
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University of Chicago
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Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1010 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
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Language , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , September 1988, pp. 583 - 590
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Copyright © 1988 by Linguistic Society of America

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