This paper presents novel evidence teasing apart the role of semantic features in scrambling. 37 bilingual English-Ukrainian children and 41 monolingual Ukrainian children from 2 to 6 were tested in an oral elicitation task which triggered the use of scrambled or basic structures in different semantic contexts. The results show a highly significant effect of specificity-partitivity on scrambling in Ukrainian. The data also suggest that the implementation of features might differ cross-linguistically, since bilingual children use less scrambling in specific-referential contexts than monolingual children.