A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3abc82a1bab246bb82a4dda01be450bf2022-12-22T00:46:18ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342286-04282019-11-01161778310.1515/rjes-2019-0010rjes-2019-0010A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous SentencesCehan Nadina0Independent researcherAmbiguity 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.https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0010ambiguitycorpus linguisticslexical ambiguitypragmatic ambiguitystructural ambiguity |
| spellingShingle | Cehan Nadina A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences Romanian Journal of English Studies ambiguity corpus linguistics lexical ambiguity pragmatic ambiguity structural ambiguity |
| title | A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences |
| title_full | A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences |
| title_fullStr | A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences |
| title_short | A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences |
| title_sort | corpus view on a couple of structurally ambiguous sentences |
| topic | ambiguity corpus linguistics lexical ambiguity pragmatic ambiguity structural ambiguity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0010 |
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