0 to move or climb quickly but with difficulty, often using your hands to help you:
1 to put things such as words or letters in the wrong order so that they do not make sense:
2 to change a radio or phone signal so that it can only be understood using a special device
3 to (cause a plane to) take off very quickly:
A helicopter was scrambled within minutes of the news.
4 a climb that is difficult so that you have to use your hands to help you:
Indeed, as private actors moved to reshape medicine, government leaders were left scrambling to respond.
The position of the head and the domain of scrambling.
A derivational approach to the interpretation of scrambling chains.
When the embedded clause is [kwh], a wh-phrase that originates in the embedded clause is understood as having the matrix scope, irrespective of scrambling.
In fact, it is crucial that the right-dislocated phrase is scrambled out of various islands.
Chapters 4-6 are mainly concerned with the relation between scrambling and specificity.
Both of the two final chapters investigate scrambling from a new standpoint, which is helpful in shedding light on its lesser-known aspects.
They make the point that scrambling moves specific nouns more easily than non-specific ones.
