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* {{t|shoe kuq}} acts like an atomic verb, as in vanilla Toaq Delta, and so | * {{t|shoe kuq}} acts like an atomic verb, as in vanilla Toaq Delta, and so | ||
* {{t|shoe kuq jí súq sá}} means: {{t|∃x shoe kuq jí súq x}}. | * {{t|shoe kuq jí súq sá}} means: {{t|∃x shoe kuq jí súq x}}. | ||
** (In No Scope Creep, it means {{t|shoe jí ∃x kuq súq x}}. | ** (In No Scope Creep, it means {{t|shoe jí ∃x kuq súq x}}.) | ||
So serials remain their old-school scope behavior, where {{t|shoe kuq}} behaves the same as a would-be compound {{t|kuqshoe}}. | So serials remain their old-school scope behavior, where {{t|shoe kuq}} behaves the same as a would-be compound {{t|kuqshoe}}. | ||
<small>(But then how do we explain "why" {{t|shoe}} does not scope over its complement ({{t|kuq … súq sá}})? Laqme thinks maybe we really should just treat serials like {{t|shoe kuq}} as ''syntactically'' the same sort of thing as atomic verbs, and model serialization using type-shifting instead of movement. See [[Weird VPs]].)</small> | <small>(But then how do we explain "why" {{t|shoe}} does not scope over its complement ({{t|kuq … súq sá}})? Laqme thinks maybe we really should just treat serials like {{t|shoe kuq}} as ''syntactically'' the same sort of thing as atomic verbs, and model serialization using type-shifting instead of movement. See [[Weird VPs]].)</small> | ||
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