Ambiguity in English.pdf

1、大連外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院碩士學(xué)位論文AmbiguityinEnglish姓名：JinJing申請(qǐng)學(xué)位級(jí)別：碩士專業(yè)：@指導(dǎo)教師：LiDaqi19980101ofsyntacticstructures(eg‘Oldmenandwomenhavetoleavethecity’)Structuralambiguitycanalsobedividedintotwokinds：puresyntacticambiguityandquasisyntactica

2、mbiguity(Cruse，1986)Bypuresyntacticambiguityismeantambiguityinwhichthevariantreadingsofasentenceinvolveidenticallexicalunits；theambiguityisthusnecessarilyamattermerelyofthewaytheelementsaregroupedtogetherForinstance，them

3、eaningofoMmenandwomendiffersaccordingtowhetheroMgoeswithmenonly《oldmen)andwomenorwithmenandwomen：old(menandwomen)Quasisyntacticambiguityreferstothefactthatthereisnostraightforwardsyntacticexplanationoftheambiguity：notonl

4、yarethelexicalunitsidenticalforthetwointerpretations，buttheyareidenticallygrouped，tooAndyetthistypeofambiguitybearsastrikingresemblancetothescopeambiguityof‘Idonjtltkehim：quasi—syntacticambi90iwisnotlexicalambiguityAnexa

5、mpleisaredpencil，whichhastweadings(i)“apencilpaintedred”and(ii)“apencilwhichwritesred”Inaddition，thereisphoneticambiguity，whichismainlyconcernedwithsoundHereweshouldhaveadistinctionbetweenstructuralambiguityandambiguouss

6、tructureStructuralambiguityreferstotheambiguityduetothestructureorsyntaxofthesentenceThatis，structuralambiguitystemsfromthestructure，notfromthemeaningsofwordsForexample，thephrase‘themenwiththeboyswhowerelaughing’isstruct

7、uralambiguitybecausewedon’tknowwhatgoeswithwhatThatis，wedon’tknowwhetherwho—clausegoeswiththemenorwiththeboysStructuralambiguityisalsocalledsyntacticambiguityOntheotherhand，ambiguousstructurereferstoanystructurecontainin

8、gambiguity；itembracesnotonlythestructureinvolvinglexicalambiguity，butalsothestructureinvolvingstructuralambiguityTherefore，bothsentences‘Hehasgonetothebank’and‘Oldmenandwomenhavetoleavethecity’arecalled‘a(chǎn)mbiguousstructur

9、es’Fromthetypesoftheambiguitydescribedabove，wemayseesomesourcesoflinguisticambiguitySimplyspeaking，lexicalambiguityiscausedmainlybypolysemy，homonymyandword—classesPolysemyandmulticlassesofonewordareboththebasicproperties