From lesson 1 to lesson 2Les petites phrases de la linguistiqueHave a look at the course notes “Tools and Algorithms for Natural Language Processing” by Bertrand Gaiffe and Guy Perrier at http://www.loria.fr/%7Eperrier/teaching/tal_m2.html. You will see, among other things, a paradigmatic example of ambiguity:
Actually, (written) sentences are ambiguous, but not (oral) utterances, or very rarely, if only because of prosody. The important notion is that of paradigmatic sentence. Here are a few.
The horse passed the barn fell
(garden-path sentence)
Les poules du couvent couvent
(absurdity of French spelling) Colorless green ideas sleep furiously (Chomsky showing that grammaticality is independent from having a meaning). Then you have donkey sentences, hippopotamus sentences, paycheck sentences, etc. Sometimes the paradigmatic phrase becomes the name of the phenomenon. E.g.: bahuvrihi. Note the transfer: the phenomenon is the new signifié of the signifiant in a grammatical context. |