ExCh1 Ambiguity 1b-c

Example: Pat didn't know a guest at the party.

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In this example, the preposition at is used as the head of the location modifier at the party.

In other examples, the prepositions at can be responsible for ambiguities. The sentence Pat was laughing at the party, is ambiguous. The preposition at, here, could either be the head of a location modifier, as in our example above, or the head of a complement PP at the party. In this second reading at the party is the theme of the laughing, not the location of the laughing.

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