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In (Karlsson et. al, 1995:19ff) an interesting disambiguation oriented<br />

(and thus CG-near) view on ambiguity is presented: Ambiguity is here classified<br />

according to how much context is needed in order to resolve it (i.e. with CG type<br />

rules). The resolvability criterion is applied to structural ambiguities in particular<br />

(rather than meaning or pragmatic ambiguity), yielding local ambiguities on the one<br />

side, which can be addressed by drawing only upon local sentence context, and<br />

global ambiguity on the other side, where sentence-transcending context would be<br />

needed for full disambiguation.<br />

Analytical (syntactic) ambiguities can be found in both groups (cp. the<br />

"resolvable" they thought her an attractive partner to the "unresolvable" they found<br />

her an attractive partner), whereas homonymy (morphological ambiguity) belongs<br />

almost entirely in the realm of locally resolvable ambiguity.<br />

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