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| + | '''Ambiguity''' is the phenomenon that an expression has more than one meaning. | ||
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| + | ===Comments=== | ||
| + | Two different types of ambiguity can be distinguished on the basis of what is causing it: [[lexical ambiguity]] (more than one word meaning) and [[structural ambiguity]] (more than one syntactic structure). | ||
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| + | Ambiguity has to be distinguished from [[vagueness]] and context [[dependence]]. | ||
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| + | ===Link=== | ||
| + | [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Ambiguity&lemmacode=1015 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | ||
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===Other languages=== | ===Other languages=== | ||
*French [[ambiguité]] | *French [[ambiguité]] | ||
*German [[Ambiguität]] | *German [[Ambiguität]] | ||
| + | *Russian [[неоднозначность]] | ||
{{dc}} | {{dc}} | ||
[[Category:Semantics]] | [[Category:Semantics]] | ||
