It has two distinct underlying interpretations that have to be represented differently in deep structure

1. structural ambiguity

2. What is structural ambiguity and
what are the examples?

3. Structural ambiguity:
It has two distinct underlying interpretations
that have to be
represented differently in deep structure
An example of structural ambiguity:
1- Annie had an umbrella
and she bumped into a man with it
2- I Shot an elephant in my pajamas

4. What are the types of structural
ambiguity?

5. 1- Lexical Ambiguity
Lexical ambiguity is the most
commonly known form of 1- Lexical Ambiguity
Lexical ambiguity is the most
commonly known form of ambiguity
1- Lexical Ambiguity
Lexical ambiguity is the most
commonly known form of
ambiguity

6. l
2- Syntactic Ambiguity
Syntactic ambiguity is a structural
or grammatical ambiguity
of a whole sentence that occurs
in a sub-part of a sentence

7. 3- Inflective Ambiguity
inflective ambiguity is a composite
ambiguity,
containing elements
of both lexical and syntactic
ambiguity.

8. How Ambiguity Leads to
Misunderstanding?

9. Syntactic ambiguity generally results from poor word
choice
. If care is not used when selecting phrases that taken
in a connotative rather than a denotative context may
have more than one meaning, or if the sentences
in which they're used are not properly constructed
, the results can often be confusing for readers
or listeners. Here are some examples:

10. The professor said on Monday he would give an
exam
. This sentence means either that it was on
Monday
that the professor told the class about the exam
or that the exam would be given on Monday.

11. Different form of
Ambiguity

12. Globally ambiguou
A globally ambiguous sentence is one that has at least two distinct
interpretations. In this type of ambiguity, after one has read or heard
the entire sentence, the ambiguity is still present. Rereading the
sentence cannot resolve the ambiguity because no feature of the
representation (i.e. word order) distinguishes the distinct
interpretations. Global ambiguities are often unnoticed because the
reader tends to choose the meaning he or she understands to be more
probable. One example of a global ambiguity is "The woman held the
baby in the green blanket." In this example, the baby could be
wrapped in the green blanket or the woman could be using the green
blanket as an instrument to hold the baby

13. .Locally ambiguous
A locally ambiguous sentence is a sentence contains an
ambiguous phrase but has only one interpretation.[5] The
ambiguity in a locally ambiguous sentence briefly persists
and is resolved, i.e., disambiguated, by the end of the
utterance. Sometimes, local ambiguities can result in
"garden path" sentences, in which a structurally sound
sentence is difficult to interpret because one interpretation of
the ambiguous region is not the ultimate coherent
interpretation.

14. What are the rules of structural
ambiguity?

15. Grammar is a word that confuses considerably
. It has been approached and defined differently by different
scholars
and schools of linguistics. Etymologically, the term Grammar
goes back
(through French & Latin) to Greek word Grammatika
or Grammatical which may be translated as the art of 'writing
". But for a long time, this term has been used
very closely to incorporate the whole study of language.

16. Present By :
Mai Ghazi