 As Rooth and Partee observed the sentence has three readings: (i) the normal de dicto reading, according to which Mary would be satisfied if she found any maid and she would also be satisfied if she found any cook (this reading can be generated by combining the verb directly with the disjunctive noun phrase a maid or a cook); (ii) the normal de re reading according to which Mary is looking for a specific person and this person is either a maid or a cook (this reading can be generated by quantifying in the disjunctive noun phrase into the translation of the sentence Mary is looking for him\(_1\)); but also (iii) a wide scope or de dicto reading in which either Mary is looking for a maid, any maid, or she is looking for a cook, any cook, we don’t know which of the two. The latter reading cannot be generated by the standard Montagovian techniques. To capture these readings Rooth and Partee (1982) proposed a dynamic analysis of disjunction, while Winter (2000), building on Larson (1985), proposed a syntactic account where or can move to various positions correlated to the positions where overt either can occur.