RE: https://fediscience.org/@skyglowberlin/115658046496365324
Beautiful example of a morphological + syntactic ambiguity (where even context doesn't help disambiguate 馃檲) #linguistics #ambiguity
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
