单词 | structural ambiguity |
释义 | > as lemmasstructural ambiguity structural ambiguity n. Linguistics ambiguity arising from uncertainty about the grammatical relationships of elements in a sentence; an instance of this; cf. lexical ambiguity n. at lexical adj. Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > structural ambiguity structural ambiguity1915 1915 A. E. Davies Text-bk. Logic xviii. 515 Among the fallacies due to verbal ambiguity we may include equivocation, accent, composition..; and among those due to structural ambiguity, amphibole and false parenthesis. 1952 C. C. Fries Struct. of Eng. iv. 62 Some type of structural ambiguity always results in English whenever the form-classes of the words are not clearly marked. 2010 M. L. Murphy & A. Koskela Key Terms in Semantics 12 Structural ambiguities arise because there is more than one possible constituent structure for a complex expression. < as lemmas |
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