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TYPES OF AMBIGUITY<br />

adapted from Karlsson (1995) paradigm ambiguity port, guarda<br />

(different lexemes)<br />

paradigm external<br />

(free morphemes) categorical ambiguity run, complementar<br />

(parts of speech)<br />

homonymy paradigm internal amamos, sheep<br />

(morphological) (bound morphemes)<br />

local syntact. word class they thought that an insult<br />

(local context needed)<br />

+ syntactic solution syntactic function they thought her an attractive partner<br />

attachment ambig. he is flying planes<br />

analytical ambiguity<br />

(constituent ambiguity) syntact. word class airport long term car park courtesy vehicle pickup point<br />

attachment ambig. they saw the girl with the binoculars<br />

structural ÷ syntactic solution syntactic function they found her an attractive partner<br />

anaphora ambiguity He bit his sister<br />

global coodination ambig. old men and women<br />

(global context needed,<br />

i.e whole sentence or "deep" structure John loves Mary<br />

more)<br />

gapping those are the boys that the police debated about fighting<br />

pragmatic ......<br />

polysemy bank, bridge<br />

(lexical ambiguity)<br />

"polylexicals" when the plane took off its wings shook<br />

(idioms, it was raining cats and dogs<br />

incorporating verbs)<br />

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