Explication of the essential properties of ambiguity

大多数语言学家都认为，歧义是意义研究中最重要的主题之一。但认真处理歧义问题的学者寥寥无几。在项目期间，我仔细阅读了许多论文和书籍，挖掘出了许多歧义单词、短语和句子的例子。并以这些例句为主要语料，撰写了《歧义句的进一步例证》、《希望与歧义》、《歧义及相关概念》、《歧义、模糊与语义解释》、《句法歧义与韵律信息》、《歧义、不确定性与言外之力》六篇论文(岐福大学教育学院年度报告：人文社会科学)，并于2000年与艾霍沙共同出版了《歧义》技术专著。在以往的研究中，我挖掘出的例子都充满了充足的数据，并得到了深思熟虑的支持，因此它们不是在…上更重要的是，它不仅对解释英语的本质属性做出了巨大贡献，而且作为语言资料也具有巨大的价值。我现在正在准备写论文，题目是《歧义和言外之力的异同》、《言外之力的数量和种类》以及《语义歧义、语用歧义和模糊的本质区别》。随着我对歧义研究的进展，相关概念如语义、语用、同义词、模糊性、概括性、花园路径句、韵律信息、言外之力等的本质属性也越来越清晰。同义词是一个与歧义同样重要的概念。在日本和其他国家，我们可以很容易地找到许多同义词词典。但据我所知，世界上还没有出版过一本歧义词典。我这项研究的最终目的是编纂和出版一本歧义句子词典。模棱两可是涵盖许多学科的主题。我相信，未来我的研究的成功将会为我们生活的发展和进步做出巨大的贡献。较少

Most linguists agree that the notion of 'ambiguity' is one of the most important themes in the study of meaning. But there are few scholars who seriously tackle with the problem of ambiguity. During the term of project I have read carefully many papers and books and have dug out lots of examples of ambiguous words, phrases and sentences. And with these examples used as main data I wrote six papers (i.e., In search of further examples of ambiguous sentences', 'Whimperatives and ambiguity', 'Ambiguity and some related notions', 'Ambiguity, vagueness and semantic interpretation', 'Syntactic ambiguity and prosodic information' and 'Ambiguity, indeterminacy and illocutionary force', (Annual Report of the Faculty of Education, Gifu University : Humanities and Social Sciences) and published the technical book named On Ambiguity in 2000 with Eihosha. All the previous researches from which I dug out examples are filled with ample data and supported by the deep contemplation, so that they not on … More ly make a great contribution to the explication of the essential properties of English but also have the great value as linguistic data. And I am now preparing to write papers entitled 'Similarities and differences between ambiguity and illocutionary force', 'The number and kinds of illocutionary forces' and 'Essential differences among semantic ambiguity, pragmatic ambiguity and vagueness'. As my study on ambiguity makes progress, the essential properties of related concepts such as semantics, pragmatics, synonymy, vagueness, fuzziness, generality, garden-path sentence, prosodic information, and illocutionary force are becoming clearer. Synonymy is a concept as important as ambiguity. We can find easily many dictionaries of synonyms in Japan as well as in the other countries. But as far as I know as yet there has not a single dictionary of ambiguity published in the world. The final aim of my research is to compile and publish a dictionary of ambiguous sentences. Ambiguity is the theme covering many disciplines. And I believe the future success of my research will lead to make a great contribution to the development and the advancement of our lives. Less