The sentence “He is a hard businessman.” is ambiguous due to().
The sentence “He is a hard businessman.” is ambiguous due to().
A、grammatical structure
B、lexical context
C、homonymy
D、polysemy
【正确答案】:D
【题目解析】:本题考查歧义产生的原因及例子。 多义词可能会引起歧义。hard既有hardworking(勤奋的)的意思,又有difficult(苛刻的)的意思,所以产生了歧义。所以这句话可以有两种理解:(1)他是一位勤奋的商人。(2)他是一个很苛刻的商人。
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