Structural ambiguity in English: an applied grammatical inventory

Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation#x97;the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks ut.

Cover; Volume I; Contents; Preface; Part I: Preliminary Considerations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Pragmatics and Structural Ambiguity; Chapter 3 Phonological Influences on Structural Ambiguity; Chapter 4 Auxiliary Verbs and Clause Types; Chapter 5 Morphological Considerations; Part II: The Lexical Inventory-Form Classes; Chapter 6 Inventory of Nouns; Chapter 7 Inventory of Verbs Part I: Transitive Verbs; Chapter 8 Inventory of Verbs Part II: Additional Verbs; Chapter 9 Inventory of Adjectives and Adverbs; Notes; Works Cited; Volume II; Contents; Preface.

Part III: The Lexical Inventory-Structure ClassesChapter 10 Inventory of Pronouns; Chapter 11 Inventory of Prepositions; Chapter 12 Inventory of Conjunctions; Part IV: Scope and Modification; Chapter 13 Inventory of Prenominal Modifiers; Chapter 14 Inventory of Other Modification and Scope Ambiguities; Part V: Additional Syntactic Considerations; Chapter 15 Ellipsis and Other Reductions; Chapter 16 Questions and Indirect Reported Speech; Chapter 17 Fixed Expressions; Part VI: Conclusion; Chapter 18 Conclusion and Formulas; Appendices; Notes; Works Cited; Index.