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''Syntactic ambiguity'' is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity. | ''Syntactic ambiguity'' is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity. | ||
==See also== | |||
*[[Ambiguous sentences in English]] | |||
==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
Revision as of 07:31, 13 August 2014
Discourse is said to be ambiguous when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space.
Discourse is said to be vague if it encompasses a large but contiguous region of concept-space.
Syntactic ambiguity is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity.