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"The Bundeswehr is now investigating, with the help of local police, who could be behind the theft."
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-2000-rounds-of-munition-stolen-from-bundeswehr/a-74980088
RE: https://fediscience.org/@skyglowberlin/115658046496365324
Beautiful example of a morphological + syntactic ambiguity (where even context doesn't help disambiguate 🙈) #linguistics #ambiguity
@tschfflr eine andere schöne Ambiguität hat mich grad zum Stolpern gebracht: „Handwerkstage: Immer weniger Azubis - was für die Ausbildung spricht“
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/deutscher-handwerkstag-nachwuchsprobleme-100.html
The headline "The Bundeswehr is now investigating, with the help of local police, who could be behind the theft." can have two syntactic structures:
1. The Bundeswehr, with the help of local police, is investigating who (= interrogative pronoun) is behind the theft.
2. The Bundeswehr is investigating (the theft), with the help of local police, who (= relative pronoun) are the persons who might be behind the theft.
#linguistics #ambiguity
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