I first presented the work reported in this paper in my 1991 semantics seminar at UMASS, and then at the 1991 ASL-LSA Meeting in Santa Cruz, the 1993 Event Conference at Bar Ilan University, the 1994 Blaubeuren Conference, the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium, and in talks at MIT, the University of Stuttgart, the University of Pennsylvania, the Ohio State University, the University of Konstanz, Cornell University, and UCLA.

The paper argues that the apparent wide-scope of indefinites is an illusion. There are no indefinites with truly exceptional scope properties. Indefinites are ambiguous between a (parametrized) choice function interpretation and a quantificational interpretation. If quantificational, indefinites obey the usual scope constraints. However, they can produce the illusion of wide scope in interaction with event quantification. Choice function indefinites may appear scoped, especially if there are bound variable pronouns in their restrictive clause. Since there is the possibility of pseudoscope, we stand no chance of understanding scope phenomena without digging deep into the semantics of the constructions in which those phenomena occur.