Exercise General definition of ambiguity: Difference between revisions

From Lexical Resource Semantics
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 26: Line 26:
|| *the side of a river
|| *the side of a river
|| See the Glossary entry on [[Glossary:Homophony| Homophony]] for more information. <br/>
|| See the Glossary entry on [[Glossary:Homophony| Homophony]] for more information. <br/>





Revision as of 23:27, 10 June 2013

General definition of ambiguity

1 What is an ambiguous word?

a word with only one meaning
a polysemous word
a homophone word
scope ambiguity
lexical ambiguity
structural ambiguity

2 Which word is the ambiguous word in the sentence?

#I bought it without any further inquiry.

#There is no bank in this town.

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

Done