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'''Ambiguity''' is the phenomenon that an expression has more than one meaning. | |||
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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). | |||
Ambiguity has to be distinguished from [[vagueness]] and context [[dependence]]. | |||
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Ambiguity&lemmacode=1015 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | |||
===Other languages=== | ===Other languages=== | ||
*French [[ambiguité]] | *French [[ambiguité]] | ||
*German [[Ambiguität]] | *German [[Ambiguität]] | ||
*Russian [[неоднозначность]] | |||
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[[Category:Semantics]] | |||