Yilin SONG, Lijing YUE. The Ambiguity and Relevant Meaning-expression Controlling Factors of "Fenbie-construction"[J]. JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF JINAN (Social Science Edition), 2022,32(5):37-45.
Yilin SONG, Lijing YUE. The Ambiguity and Relevant Meaning-expression Controlling Factors of "Fenbie-construction"[J]. JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF JINAN (Social Science Edition), 2022,32(5):37-45.DOI:
The root cause of the ambiguity of "Fenbie-construction" is the flexibility of the distributive operator "Fenbie" . However
the sentence pattern and deep semantic controlling factors of "Fenbie-construction" can limit the flexibility of "Fenbie"
thus causing some sentences to be ambiguous and some not. It also leads to the difference in the number of ambiguities of the same sentence pattern. When two subjects correspond to two objects
as long as there is a one-way non-facultative between subjects and objects
the sentence will not have the ambiguity. Otherwise
there is the ambiguity. In this case
the number of ambiguities is related to whether the time sequence between subjects and subjects
objects and objects is clear
and whether the ambiguous relationship will affect the meaning of the sentence in its context. When multiple subjects correspond to multiple objects
there is no ambiguity only when at least one bidirectional non-facultative is formed.