 The example just examined can be, as just shown, accommodated without acknowledging a discontinuity (if a flat structure is assumed).There are many other cases of scrambling, however, where the analysis must acknowledge a discontinuity, almost regardless of whether relatively flat structures are assumed or not.This fact means that scrambling is generally acknowledged as one of the primary discontinuity types (in addition to topicalization, "wh"-fronting, and extraposition).