LIN232H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adpositional Phrase
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That guy in the corner took linguistics in high school . > that guy in the corner = together makes sense/constituent. > all smaller pieces are within the constituent. Structural ambiguity; when you have a string of words that has two meanings. > you can read this in two different ways; either both man and woman are old or there"s an old man and a woman (doesn"t specify if the woman is too) He sold a car to his brother in montreal ; this sentence is also ambiguous. > the reason being is because a) the act of selling occurred in montreal or b) the act of selling occurred to his brother (but the location can be anywhere) > in montreal is one constituent/one case where it"s associated with the brother and in another case, it"s not connected to the brother, but it"s connected to the act of selling, which is why this sentence has 2 meanings.
