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| + | [[Ambiguity]] that arises from the fact that two or more different syntactic structures can be assigned to one string of words. The expression ''old men and women'' is structurally ambiguous because it has the following two structural analyses: | ||
(i) old [men and women] | (i) old [men and women] | ||
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Ambiguous expressions that are not structurally ambiguous display [[lexical ambiguity]]. | Ambiguous expressions that are not structurally ambiguous display [[lexical ambiguity]]. | ||
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| − | + | *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Structural+ambiguity&lemmacode=275 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | |
| − | [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Structural+ambiguity&lemmacode=275 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:04, 10 August 2014
Definition
Ambiguity that arises from the fact that two or more different syntactic structures can be assigned to one string of words. The expression old men and women is structurally ambiguous because it has the following two structural analyses:
(i) old [men and women] (ii) [old men] and women
Ambiguous expressions that are not structurally ambiguous display lexical ambiguity.
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