- Adjoined(in linguistic structure)
- Attached or added to something else as a connected element; in grammar, it means a phrase or operator is attached to another part of the sentence.
- Conjunction-level(in grammar analysis)
- Referring to a 'conjunction,' which is a word that joins phrases or clauses (like 'and,' 'or,' 'but'). Conjunction-level means the ambiguity or problem exists at that joining point.
- Covert(in linguistic analysis)
- Hidden or not directly stated in the sentence—something that's grammatically there and affects meaning but isn't written out as actual words.
- D-operator(in formal linguistics)
- A 'distributor operator'—a theoretical grammatical element that linguists propose exists in sentences to trigger the distributive reading, even though you can't see or hear it explicitly.
- Distributive reading(in linguistics and logic)
- A way of interpreting a sentence where you apply something separately to each item in a group, rather than to the group as a whole. For example, 'John and Mary ate pizza' could mean they each ate pizza individually (distributive) or shared one pizza together (non-distributive).
- Roberts (1987) and Lasersohn (1995)(as academic sources)
- Citations to academic papers published by linguists Craige Roberts and Peter Lasersohn in those years, in which they argued specific theories about how distributive readings work in grammar.
- VP(in grammar and syntax)
- Short for 'verb phrase'—the part of a sentence that includes the verb and everything that goes with it (like objects or modifiers). Example: in 'John quickly ate pizza,' 'quickly ate pizza' is the VP.
- structural ambiguity(Contrasted with lexical ambiguity of names or definite descriptions)
- Ambiguity arising from the syntactic structure of a sentence (e.g., differences in scope) rather than from multiple meanings of a word