Exercise General definition of ambiguity

The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Nicki, Marc M, Leo, Anna Böcher, Lorena

General definition of ambiguity

1 What is an ambiguous word?

	a word with only one meaning
	a polysemous word
	a homophone word

2 What is the technical term for words that have more than one meaning?

	scope ambiguity
	lexical ambiguity
	structural ambiguity

3 Which word is the ambiguous word in the sentence?

a) I bought it without any further inquiry:

b) There is no bank in this town:

4 Think of three sentences in which the word “hot” has different meanings.

Done

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