 There are also problems with this route. First, it seems that such span operators introduce ambiguities. Let’s introduce the span operator “HAS” as the operator “it has been the case that…” and consider a target sentence, “first it was raining and then the sun shone”. Then, suppose that we paraphrase this as: “HAS (it is raining and the sun is shining)”. This is problematically ambiguous. The paraphrase might mean that there has been an interval of time throughout which it has both been the case that the sun has shone and it has rained. Or, it might mean that there is an interval of time, throughout a sub-interval of which the sun shone and throughout another sub-interval of which it rained. Clearly, we want the latter; but with HAS, at least as stated, we have no means of differentiating the two. If the semantics of the span operator are ambiguous, then it doesn’t give us a sensible semantics for span-talk (cf. Tallant &amp; Ingram 2020).