Abstrakt:
This paper looks at structurally motivated ambiguities in language and the processes involved in coping with them. It poses questions such as to what extent ambiguities are detected, which factors render one interpretation easier to arrive at than another, and, indeed, whether they always have to be resolved or whether ambiguity in language communication is a reflection of ambiguous reality and therefore something we are prepared to live with. It does not attempt to present a comprehensive overview or classification of the phenomenon, but rather to examine ambiguity in a variety of perspectives, some of them exceeding the limits of linguistics.
