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    Supports→The multiple readings of 'Every man who read a book by Chomsky is happy' should not be treated as a scopal ambiguity akin to other quantifier scope ambiguities.

    Kratzer's (1998) analysis shows indefinites introduce choice functions, not generalized quantifiers, making their 'scope' a misnomer for a fundamentally different semantic operation.

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    Key Terms

    Indefinites(in linguistics)
    Words like 'a' or 'some' that refer to things without specifying exactly which one (unlike 'the' which points to something specific).
    Kratzer, Angelika(as a reference to a specific philosopher's work)
    A prominent philosopher and linguist who studies how language works, particularly how we talk about possibilities, obligations, and conditional statements.
    Semantic operation(in philosophy of language)
    A formal process or rule for determining what words and sentences actually mean or refer to.
    choice functions(Formal semantics of indefinites)
    Functions that select a member from a set, used as a semantic mechanism to account for the scopal behavior of indefinites without syntactic movement
    generalized quantifiers

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    The theory that treats quantifier phrases like 'many', 'most', and 'few' as irreducibly binary quantifiers
    scope(formal semantics / generalized quantifier theory)
    The second argument of a type ⟨1,1⟩ determiner denotation

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