Re: What is "ambiguous " mean in syntax? Salam 3alekom/ Good evening
If we want to talk about the concept of ambiguity ,we need to clarify an important thing .
The synagmatic axis is more concerned with the structural chain of lexical items ; whether they fit together or not .
For example , [good the boy ]NP is , syntagmatically speaking, ambigious despite its meaning is quite absorbed .
In this case , this NP would be syntactically ambigious .
On the other hand , the paradigmatic axis is more concerned with the meaningful choise of the lexical items in a given language .
For example , [ the beautiful man ] NP is, syntactically speaking , but , however, it is, paradigmatically speaking ,
ambigious .
So the concept of Ambiguity is not restricted to Syntax , but it could easily include Semantics . |