SEM131 - Ambiguity

This E-Lecture discusses and exemplifies the phenomenon of ambiguity, ranging from lexical to pragmatic. And as usual, Prof. Handke uses numerous examples to illustrate this ubiquous property of natural language expressions.

[MohamedAli-rdrn]

You made ambiguity clearer for me.
I'm forever in your debt.
Without you, I couldn't 've learned this.
I really appreciate your time (and you ).
Prof.Dr.

[masterimtiyaz]

It is really outstanding. Presentation is boosting up knowledge. Thank u sir.

[itsbetty]

When this term has not been clear ever since I got to know of it, but Thanks Professor, you made everything clear & easier

[A_Jel]

Well he went and disambiguated the topic for us. Much appreciated, thank you.

[budihamuddin]

Thank you so much prof.... the explanation makes it clears as a crystal

[fatimahal-shammiri]

Wonderful, how easy and well-explained. I wonder I you have an E-lecture about syntactic ambiguity?

[Dr_Ali.Aljboury]

your expatiation very nice Sir, so may i asking you about these relations please as follow:

Synonyms

hypernyms

hyponyms

Holonym

Meronym

Descendant

Least common subsumes

Subsumes

Path

Length

Depth

did you have course on these relation with example of figure and how does work!

Thank you!

[herohamada]

Hi guys can you tell me what is the explanation of IP/I'/INFL/PAST/PRES on the tree diagram ?? Please

[JamCountryGirl]

I am reading for my MA in English in Jamaica. I would love for you to supervise my Phd. Which university are you at? You are an amazing educator.

[antoineghannoum]

Dear Professor,

Thanks a lot for your useful videos!

In structural ambiguity, will a hyphen solve the ambiguity problem?
"A porcelain-egg container": a container for porcelain eggs.
"A porcelain egg-container": an egg container which is made of porcelain.

Best regards,
Antoine Ghannoum

[RahmahNike]

so, what are the markers of ambiguity?

[aplusonline]

Wow I'm so impressed and thankful... Thanks so much for the videos you make.❤️

[salimalshati]

What about this ambiguity: He buried the gun he found in the garden, did he find it in the garden or did he bury it in the garden ?? and how can we rephrase it to remove this ambiguity ? Thank you so much

[stardustmax]

thnx sir ... I made a research about ambiguity in english 15 years ago it, s very close to your lecture but i added the something about ( the deep meaning of sentence ) .

[qellis]

Can I also use the girl that is his friend in the same way...

[boaventuraviegas]

Thank you!!! I really appreciate your explanation. I have read so many articles trying to understand it however, unsuccessful and fortunately I got the solution on this video.

[moonlight]

How you can explain " a bed has four legs, but only one foot " .

[moussad.]

Question: le Dieu vétéro testamentaire YHWH est-il le même que le Dieu des Évangiles? Si tel est le cas il ne peut peut être le Dieu de l'islam... Allah a pour étymologie "El"(Eloha, Elohim...) Dieu vénéré par Cananéens et les Misraïm ; là où Ben Terah a fait son initiation après avoir fuit Ur... ça amène à penser que les trois monothéismes sont à la fois consubstantiel et ambivalent du fait de leurs incohérences dans leur versions respectives. Entre le verset 17:20 de la genèse, Macmad(im) qui préfigure la future venue du prophète de l'islam contredit par le quantique de Salomon, la version islamique de la mort de Jesus, les juifs d'époque soumis au Sanhédrin et qui dans le même temps ont rejeté INRI... on peux dire que rétrospectivement elles sont tributaire les unes des autres.

[wahidafirdous]

Can you resolve the ambiguity in the following sentences?
1. They sent Joan a waitress from the hotel.
2.Look at that dog with one eye.
3.I watched her duck.

[Ward-Abushindi]

Your explanation is good, but your plan is very bad, you must know how to de-complicate your explanations in video and not make it more complicated for the one watching the video