<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Ambiguity has played a central role in the formation of modern grammatical theory. The article revisits the topic of structural ambiguity in particular, by looking closely at the sentences ‘The shooting of the hunters is terrible’ and ‘Flying planes can be dangerous’, both taken from Chomsky’s works. The question posed is whether the data provided by corpora verify their ambiguity.</p></abstract>

Ambiguity has played a central role in the formation of modern grammatical theory. The article revisits the topic of structural ambiguity in particular, by looking closely at the sentences ‘The shooting of the hunters is terrible’ and ‘Flying planes can be dangerous’, both taken from Chomsky’s works. The question posed is whether the data provided by corpora verify their ambiguity.

A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Ambiguity has played a central role in the formation of modern grammatical theory. The article revisits the topic of structural ambiguity in particular, by...

A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

Published Online: Dec 05, 2019

Page range: 77 - 83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0010

Keywords
ambiguity, corpus linguistics, lexical ambiguity, pragmatic ambiguity, structural ambiguity

© 2019 Nadina Cehan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

Published Online: Dec 05, 2019

Page range: 77 - 83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0010

Keywordsambiguity, corpus linguistics, lexical ambiguity, pragmatic ambiguity, structural ambiguity

© 2019 Nadina Cehan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
ambiguity, corpus linguistics, lexical ambiguity, pragmatic ambiguity, structural ambiguity