If the ambiguity were due to 'and' sometimes acting as a sentential operator and sometimes as a term-forming operator, conjunction reduction of sentences with different readings would be infelicitous
A word or symbol that connects complete sentences together, like 'and' or 'or' do when you say 'It's raining AND the game is canceled.'
term-forming operator(in logic and linguistics)
A word that combines with other words to create a single noun or label, like 'and' in 'bacon and eggs' where it helps form one dish name rather than connecting two separate ideas.
Clearly, the ‘him’ in (43) can be interpreted as Phil or Stanley. But, crucially, how you interpret ‘him’ will depend on how you connect the two sentences. On the one hand, the interpretation of ‘him’ as referring to Phil goes hand in hand with a causal relation – its was the tickling that caused the poking (known as a result relation. Interpreting ‘him’ as referring to Stanley suggests goes hand in hand with a parallel relation. Of course the inference is defeasible – one can always break the c