A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
n. Any criterion proposed for distinguishing true ambiguity from instances of mere vagueness. An example is the contradiction test, by which the putatively acceptable example That dog isn’t a dog—it’s a bitch supposedly demonstrates the lexical ambiguity of dog. See Zwicky and Sadock (1975) for discussion.
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