Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a sou
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Bucaria, Chiara
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Article
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2004
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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English
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The paper analyzes some forms of linguistic ambiguity in English in a specific register, i.e. newspaper headlines. In particular, the focus of the research is on examples of lexical and syntactic ambiguity that result in sources of voluntary or involuntary humor. The study is based on a corpus of 13