Eckhard Bick - VISL

3.3 Borderline ambiguity:
The limits of form and structure
In chapter 3.1.1 a number of cases of true ambiguity were presented, i.e. cases where
sentence context is not large enough a window for full disambiguation, and - short of
widening the context window to, say, paragraph size or using non-CG tools like
pragmatic reasoning or scripts - portmanteau tags and dependency underspecification
were suggested as tools fully compatible with and in fact elegantly supported by CG's
tag-based "flat" notation.
example ambiguity type underspecification tool
(1) amamos inflexional portmanteau-tag (PR/PS)
(2) homens e mulheres do Brasil co-ordination linear link (@CO)
(3) o homem com a bicicleta da China attachment hierarchy left linear attachment (@N