| In some languages, and some registers of English, syntactic tangling like this is normal. |
| In this paper I focus on scope phenomena connected with semi-modal verbs and mainly on the syntactic behaviour of these groups of verbs. |
| The claim is that the ambiguity can be resolved entirely in terms of syntactic scope. |
| At the time he was busy mimeographing handouts about ordering constraints among syntactic transformations. |
| In terms of lexical category ambiguity, languages do differ in the extent to which their word-forms are specialized for syntactic function. |
| In addition, the ironic echo also displays a syntactic shift by changing the first clause to a negative and the second to an affirmative. |
