A Corpus View on a Couple of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

Ambiguity has played a central role in the formation of modern grammatical theory. The article revisits the topic of structural ambiguity in particular, by looking closely at the sentences ‘The shooting of the hunters is terrible’ and ‘Flying planes can be dangerous’, both taken from Chomsky’s works...

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Main Author: Cehan Nadina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-11-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0010