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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>An [[operator]] O has '''narrow scope''' with respect to an operator O' if O occurs in the subformula which corresponds to the scope of O':<br />
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(i) ... O' [ ... O [ .... ] ... ]<br />
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The operator O' is then said to have wide scope with respect to O or to have scope over O.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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the existential quantifier ThereIs(y) in (ii) has narrow scope with respect to the universal quantifier All(x), but wide scope with respect to negation Neg:<br />
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(ii) All(x) [ P(x) -&gt; ThereIs(y) [ Neg R(x,y) ]]<br />
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=== Links ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Narrow+scope&lemmacode=485 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.<br />
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