History: scope of selbri tcita

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I believe the current prescription is that scope follows left-to-right, except for {na} (or NA?), which has maximally wide scope over the bridi.

This exception is a pointless complication that leads to confusion. It should be done away with. (The only defence of it has come from Nora (on jboske & phpbb), hingeing on the interpretation of nago'i. This is addressed on phpbb & will be recapped on the wiki in due course when we get round to writing up something on the interpretation of bridi anaphora.)

The scope rules, then, are as follows:

  • outer has scope over inner
  • for two elements at the same level, either (a) the former has scope over the latter, or (b) they have 'coordinate' scope (defined on Discussion: Three dogs attacked four men). Disambiguation between (a) and (b) is done either by glorking or by BAhE-subord/BAhE-coord.


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xorxes:
We also need to consider the scope of quantifiers in tagged terms with respect to the scope of the tag. There seem to be two options:

  1. Since the term appears to the right of the tag, the tag has scope over the quantifier.
  2. Since the tag is essentially an extension of the selbri, the term's quantifier has scope over the tag (as it does over the selbri too).


And: Are you talking about {PA1 roi PA2 broda}?

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Tue 23 of Sep, 2003 19:38 GMT pycyn from 65.69.51.90 It is not clear where comments come in the general scheme of things -- after additions (but when) and before discussion. In any case, the whole notion of scope needs to be looked at again, probably s 6
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