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[[Hoemaı]]'s response to [[No Scope Creep]] was a suggestion to consider serial verbs separately from other cases. '''Some Scope Creep''' is a variant of that proposal which does exactly that:

* {{t|bu kuq jí sá}} means ¬({{t|∃x kuq jí x}}), and
* {{t|ao kuq jí sá}} means AO({{t|∃x kuq jí x}}), just like in No Scope Creep — but
* {{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}}.
** (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}}.

<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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