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    It is not the case that If the distributive reading arises from a covert distributivity operator (D-operator) adjoined to the VP, as argued by Roberts (1987) and Lasersohn (1995), then the ambiguity is VP-level, not conjunction-level, and the supporting argument merely relocates rather than eliminates a structural ambiguity.

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    • 1.Positing covert operators merely defers the explanatory burden without eliminating the core problem of ambiguity representation itself.
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    • 2.D-operators lack independent motivation beyond explaining this specific phenomenon; they appear tailored to the problem rather than independently justified.
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    • 3.The claim that relocation solves the problem equivocates: structural ambiguity at VP-level is equally problematic as at conjunction-level.
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    • 1.D-operators provide a principled mechanism grounded in standard compositional semantics rather than ad-hoc pragmatic disambiguation.
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    • 2.VP-level ambiguity is empirically testable through scope interactions with quantifiers, making the account falsifiable.
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    • 3.Relocating ambiguity to VP-level explains why distributivity correlates with specific syntactic positions, not arbitrary pragmatic contexts.
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