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van Oirsouw, Robert R. – 1978
The source of syntactic ambiguity and facts concerning the resolution of such ambiguity are discussed in this paper. The attitude of qenerative linguists towards ambiguity is examined, and a working distinction is drawn between vaqueness and ambiguity. The consequences of this distinction are then examined for syntactic ambiguity and an ordering…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
