Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
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Fortuny, Jordi [1]
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[1] Universitat de Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 78, Nº 1, 2024, págs. 35-63
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave. It observes that several movement locality constraints have the effect of reducing chain formation ambiguities; however, it argues that movement locality constraints are not primarily motivated to reduce ambiguity. Finally, it defends that structural ambiguity is due to a loss of resolution at the PF branch of the language faculty.
