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@@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ One can do that with a very spare set of basic combinators. These days the stand
 
 There are some well-known linguistic applications of Combinatory
 Logic, due to Anna Szabolcsi, Mark Steedman, and Pauline Jacobson.
-Szabolcsi supposed that the meanings of certain expressions could be
-insightfully expressed in the form of combinators.
-
+They claim that natural language semantics is a combinatory system: that every
+natural language denotation is a combinator.
 
 For instance, Szabolcsi argues that reflexive pronouns are argument
 duplicators.
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@ duplicators.
 ![reflexive](http://lambda.jimpryor.net/szabolcsi-reflexive.jpg)
 
 Notice that the semantic value of *himself* is exactly `W`.
-The reflexive pronoun in direct object position combines first with the transitive verb (through compositional magic we won't go into here).  The result is an intransitive verb phrase that takes a subject argument, duplicates that argument, and feeds the two copies to the transitive verb meaning.  
+The reflexive pronoun in direct object position combines with the transitive verb.  The result is an intransitive verb phrase that takes a subject argument, duplicates that argument, and feeds the two copies to the transitive verb meaning.  
 
 Note that `W <~~> S(CI)`: