ON SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITIES IN ENGLISH

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis represents the establishment of syntactic ambiguities for some effects of ambiguity upon sentence comprehension in English.
The central rasult is that there are some sixteen types of ambiguity in English. Those types of ambiguity can be classified into Constructional Ambiguity, Derived Structure Ambiguity, Scope Ambiguit and Pragmatic Ambiguity.
The organization of this thesis consists of seven chapters. Following Chapter I.i.e., Introduction, Chapter 2 sketches the ambiguity phenomena associated with transformational operations and the kinds of ambiguity, before turning to the types for syntactic description. Constructional Ambiguity in Chapter 3, Derived Structure Ambiguity in Chapter 4, Scope Ambiguity in Chapter 5, and Pragmatic Ambiguity in Chapter 6, are discussed, respectively. In the final Chapter, some findings are shown, and implication are suggested.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• CHAPTER:1 INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER:2 TRANSFORMATIONS AND AMBIGUITY
• CHAPTER:3 CONSTRUTIONAL AMBIGUITY
• 3.1. Prepositional Phrase Modification
• 3.2. Adverb Modification
• 3.3. -ING/-EN Forms, and Sentence final Participial Clause
• 3.4. Gerundival Subject
• CHAPTER: 4 SCOPE AMBIGUITY
• 4.1. Negation
• 4.2. Quantifiers
• 4.3. Focusing/Intonation
• 4.4. Inflected Form/Time-NP
• CHAPTER:5 DERIVED STRUCTURE AMBIGUITY
• 5.1. Comparatives
• 5.2. Conjunctions
• CHAPTER:6 PRAGMATIC AMBIGUITY
• 6.1. Vocative Versus Name NP
• 6.2. Causative Clause
• 6.3. Mental Image Consturction
• 6.4. Case Assignment
• 6.5. Modals
• 6.6. The Subject and the Speaker
• CHAPTER:7 CONCLUSION
• 7.1. Findings
• 7.2. Implications