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Having pointed out my view of topicality, I will now set the stage for the second main topic of this book, which are the exceptional wide scope phenomena. In this chapter, I will discuss the highly controversial term specificity, which will in the end be argued to be a notion that only makes sense in the context of opaque operators. Specific readings hence have to be set apart from wide scope readings in truly transparent contexts. I will furthermore discuss methods which can serve to differentiate between apparent wide scope readings and genuine wide scope readings of indefinites in a systematic way. Furthermore, I will discuss functional readings, which can also be indicative of wide scope readings, as I will show.
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Endriss, C. (2009). Genuine and Apparent Scope Readings. In: Quantificational Topics. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2303-2_3
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