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  • Having recognized the two scopings of 1 as a fact of English, the task is now to write a grammar such that both scopings are generated.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » When I Say Everyone Can’t, I Mean It! 2004

  • And once you specify definitions for your negation and quantifiers such as every so that you can generate a sentence like (4) with these two scopings, the two scopings for sentences like (1) are generated automatically.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » When I Say Everyone Can’t, I Mean It! 2004

  • This sentence has two scopings for the negation, shown in (5) and (6), both of which are completely OK for me, and for every other English speaker as far as I know.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » When I Say Everyone Can’t, I Mean It! 2004

  • Cinematographer Peter Indergand's scopings are expressively accented by the fine editing of Frei and Andreas Winterstein: The images, glorious and crude, butt against each other -- evocative of this Quixotic quest.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Cinematographer Peter Indergand's scopings are expressively accented by the fine editing of Frei and Andreas Winterstein: The images, glorious and crude, butt against each other -- evocative of this Quixotic quest.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • The charge for this service is $750 and scopings can be arranged by calling Priest directly at

    TheHorse.com News 2009

  • The downside is that in a complex object literal the keyword 'this' can have three different scopings.

    Cam Riley 2008

  • Through the years, I (in company with many other people with strong opinions about English grammar) remained convinced that anyone who said “Everyone can’t” and meant “Not everyone can” was making a mistake, plain and simple, despite the accumulating evidence that for many people, both scopings shown in (2) and (3) wereOK.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » When I Say Everyone Can’t, I Mean It! 2004

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