Types of ambiguity

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Ambiguity is wide spread in natural language. In most cases, however, we do not even notice the ambiguity in everyday life. However, these ambiguities are real and it is very important to understand what kinds of ambiguity exist in natural language. This will also help us to determine the factors (grammatical and contextual) which allow us to communicate without being lost in ambiguity all the time.

Ambiguity vs. vagueness

Lexical ambiguity

Structural ambiguity

Scope ambiguity

Collective/distributive ambiguity

Referential ambiguity

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