More than one meaning

Abstract

Words, phrases or sentences are ambiguous if they express more than one meaning. Ambiguity is a very complex problem, and one of the suggestions how to solve the problem is either to use the method of immediate constituents analysis or apply transformational generative approach to language analyses. There are other contemporary approaches that treat the problem of ambiguity, and one of them is the phrase structure grammar. In comprehending ambiguous sentences and phrases, syntax and semantics have an equal status.

Keywords

• ambiguity
• IC analysis
• TG approach
• phrase structure grammar
• sentence
• phrase