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  2. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  3. Syntactic ambiguity - Wikipedia

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    Syntactic ambiguity, also known as structural ambiguity, [1] amphiboly, or amphibology, is characterized by the potential for a sentence to yield multiple interpretations due to its ambiguous syntax. This form of ambiguity is not derived from the varied meanings of individual words but rather from the relationships among words and clauses ...

  4. Semantic ambiguity - Wikipedia

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    Lexical ambiguity is a subtype of semantic ambiguity where a word or morpheme is ambiguous. When a lexical ambiguity results from a single word having two senses, it is called polysemy . For instance, the English "foot" is polysemous since in general it refers to the base of an object, but can refer more specifically to the foot of a person or ...

  5. Sentence processing - Wikipedia

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    Syntactic processing is usually taken to be the most basic analysis step, which feeds into semantic processing and the inclusion of other information. A separate mental module parses sentences and lexical access happens first. Then, one syntactic hypothesis is considered at a time. There is no initial influence of meaning, or semantic.

  6. Lexical aspect - Wikipedia

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    For example, the English verbs arrive and run differ in their lexical aspect since the former describes an event which has a natural endpoint while the latter does not. Lexical aspect differs from grammatical aspect in that it is an inherent semantic property of a predicate , while grammatical aspect is a syntactic or morphological property.

  7. Scope (formal semantics) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, some sentences display a scope ambiguity in that the relative scopes of two operators can be construed in multiple ways. [1] [2] Every hedgehog is friends with a giraffe. This sentence can be understood in two ways. On the inverse scope reading, there is a single giraffe who is very popular in the hedgehog community.

  8. Logical form (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Example b. Many girls has a truth value of true iff there are many girls who are tall. This quantifier is satisfied with more than 1 instance of a girl being tall. Example c. Every girl has a truth value of true iff every girl is tall. This quantifier requires for all girls, that every instance of a person being female, she must be tall. Example d.

  9. Grammatical category - Wikipedia

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    Lexical categories (considered syntactic categories) largely correspond to the parts of speech of traditional grammar, and refer to nouns, adjectives, etc. A phonological manifestation of a category value (for example, a word ending that marks "number" on a noun) is sometimes called an exponent .