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-{{GammaNote}}
 A phrase's '''scope''' is the part of the sentence that that phrase's semantics apply to.
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 <blockquote>
-{{t|Shỏe jí kûq súq <u>sıa</u> rảı da.}}<br>
+{{t|Shoe jí {{vy}}ä kuq súq <u>sía</u> raı da.}}<br>
 '''means:''' “I allow you to say <u>nothing</u>.”<br>
 '''not:''' ❌ “There is nothing that I allow you to say.”
 </blockquote>
-Here, the scope of {{t|sıa}} is the clause “{{t|kûq súq sıa raı}}”.
+Here, the scope of {{t|sía}} is the clause “{{t|{{vy}}ä kuq súq sía raı}}”.
 == Topic and scope ==
-If we want to say the other thing, we have to lift {{t|sıa}} out of the clause by placing it in the [[topic]] of the main clause:
+If we want to say the other thing, we have to lift {{t|sía}} out of the clause by [[clefting]] it to the main clause:
 <blockquote>
-{{t|<u>Sıa rảı bı,</u> shỏe jí kûq súq ráı da.}}<br>
+{{t|<u>Sía raı nä</u> shoe jí {{vy}}ä kuq súq ráı da.}}<br>
 <u>There is nothing that</u> I allow you to say.
 </blockquote>
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 This amounts to a claim about the ''order'' to apply their respective semantics in.
-For example: [[adverbial|high adverbials]] "scope over" the verb of the clause they're in. Thus, the sentence {{t|Dảı ní bũ da}} is interpreted as <math>\neg \text{possible}(\text{this})</math> “this isn't possible” rather than <math>\text{possible}(\neg \text{this})</math> “this is possibly false”.
+<!-- For example: [[adverbial|high adverbials]] "scope over" the verb of the clause they're in. Thus, the sentence {{t|Dảı ní bũ da}} is interpreted as <math>\neg \text{possible}(\text{this})</math> “this isn't possible” rather than <math>\text{possible}(\neg \text{this})</math> “this is possibly false”. -->
 == Scope creep ==
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 <blockquote>
-{{t|Shỏe jí kûq súq sıa rảı da.}}<br>
+{{t|Shoe jí {{vy}}ä kuq súq sía raı da.}}<br>
 “I allow you to say nothing.”<br>
-→ 🤔 {{t|<u>Shỏe kủq</u> jí súq sıa rảı da.}}<br>
+→ 🤔 {{t|<u>Shoe kuq</u> jí súq sía raı da.}}<br>
 “I allow-to-say you nothing(?)”
 </blockquote>
-However, the {{tone|5}} clause that was limiting the scope of {{t|sıa}} is now gone, which means that {{t|sıa}} scopes over the whole sentence. The meaning of the sentence is thereby changed to ''“There is nothing that I allow you to say”''.
+However, the {{t|{{vy}}}} clause that was limiting the scope of {{t|sía}} is now gone, which means that {{t|sía}} scopes over the whole sentence. The meaning of the sentence is thereby changed to ''“There is nothing that I allow you to say”''.