Semantics: Ambiguity




AMBUGITY

Our semantic knowledge tells us when words, phrases or sentences have more than one meaning, that is, when they are ambiguous. In structural ambiguity the same sequence of words has two or more meanings. The boy saw the man with a telescope is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is ambiguous because it can mean that the boy saw the man by using a telescope or that the boy saw the man who was holding a telescope. The sentence is structurally ambiguous because it is associated with two different phrase structures, each corresponding to a different meaning. Lexical ambiguity arises when at least one word in a phrase has more than one meaning. For example the sentence “The fisherman went to the bank” is ambiguous; because the word "bank" has distinct lexical definitions, including "financial institution" and "edge of a river".
ð Our knowledge of lexical and structural ambiguities reveals that the meaning of a linguistic expression is built both on the words it contains and its syntactic structure.



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