Anything goes? – A questionnaire study on scope ambiguities in Ukrainian

This paper examines scope ambiguity in doubly quantified sentences in Ukrainian, a “free” word order language. Drawing on data from a questionnaire study, we show that sentences with existential quantifiers in subject position and universal quantifiers in object position exhibit scope ambiguity in both SVO and OVS structures. Our findings challenge the view that syntactic structure constrains quantifier scope and suggest that the availability of Quantifier Raising (QR) is not tied to surface word order. The paper contributes new empirical evidence on scope ambiguities in Ukrainian and offers a syntactic analysis with the corresponding semantic mapping of SVO and OVS configurations.