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    It is not the case that Showing the ambiguity does not reside in 'and' is thus consistent with, and even predicted by, syntactic theories that posit covert operators, leaving the claim compatible with structural ambiguity accounts the original argument was meant to preclude.

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    • 1.Invoking covert operators to salvage structural ambiguity accounts risks unfalsifiability—hidden operators can explain away any counter-evidence.
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    • 2.If the original argument successfully demonstrated ambiguity doesn't reside in 'and', positing post-hoc covert operators merely relocates rather than resolves the problem.
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    • 3.The explanatory burden on covert operator theories requires independent motivation beyond rescuing threatened structural accounts from objections.
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    • 1.Covert operators are empirically motivated by linguistic phenomena like gapping and ellipsis, making their theoretical status independently justified.
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    • 2.If ambiguity can be explained by hidden syntactic structure rather than lexical ambiguity, surface-level examination alone cannot definitively rule out structural accounts.
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    • 3.The original argument's force depends on 'and' being transparently ambiguous; showing covert operators preserve structural ambiguity undermines that foundational claim.
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