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Noun Concept

Categories: Ambiguity, Semantics, Syntax, Semantics (linguistics)

amphibology amphiboly syntactic ambiguity ambiguity ambiguous sentence structure

An ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes WordNet 3.0

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An ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Syntactic ambiguity, also called structural ambiguity, amphiboly or amphibology, is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Wikipedia

Equivocation in literature Wikipedia Disambiguation

Sentences with structures permitting multiple possible interpretations Wikidata

An ambiguous grammatical construction. Wiktionary

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ambiguity

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

amphibology, amphiboly

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