Syntactic ambiguity
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Syntactic ambiguity, also called amphiboly or amphibology, is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure.
Syntactic ambiguity arises not from the range of meanings of single words, but from the relationship between the words and clauses of a sentence, and the sentence structure underlying the word order therein. In other words, a sentence is syntactically ambiguous when a reader or listener can reasonably interpret one sentence as having more than one possible structure.
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See also
- Ambiguous grammar
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Equivocation
- Garden path sentence
- Ibis redibis nunquam per bella peribis
- List of linguistic example sentences
- Natural language processing
- Paraprosdokian
- The Purple People Eater
- Transderivational search
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