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Structural ambiguity and 'because'

Answered 20 August 2014

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I may be missing something but isn't this more a question of negation scope. In which case a simple case of bracketing would explain the difference:

[[NOT discipline] [because he loves them]]

[NOT [discipline because he loves them]]

You'd have to be more explicit about the X' problem.

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