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    Shalom Lappin

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Research for this paper was in part supported by a grant from the Rothschild Foundation which made it possible for me to spend April-August, 1981 at Wolfson College, Oxford. I am grateful to Anil Gupta, the members of the Wolfson Philosophy of Language Discussion Group, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Lappin, S. On the pragmatics of mood. Linguist Philos 4, 559–578 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00360805

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