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I would like to thank Barbara Partee and Gene Lewis for extensive and insightful comments on earlier versions of this paper. Only a few of the questions that arise from their comments have been opened in the present paper. I would also like to thank two anonymous referees for their comments and suggested clarifications.
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Vlach, F. Temporal adverbials, tenses and the perfect. Linguist Philos 16, 231–283 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985970
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