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A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

   | 05 dic 2019

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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 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.

eISSN:
2286-0428
ISSN:
1584-3734
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Inglés
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Volume Open
Temas de la revista:
Linguistics and Semiotics, Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines, Linguistics, other, Germanic Languages, English