Abstract: Lexical and syntactic ambiguity is a natural phenomenon in languages of the world. Generally, languages are having lexical and syntactic ambiguity based on their prose and verses. Beside human beings, lexical Ambiguity and polysemy is a big problem for the machine and online translation. For answering this problem and finding the exact meaning of the word and sentence. the translation should through the context in which the word is used. This paper deliberates upon types of ambiguity in Pashto and later discusses the kinds of lexical and grammatical ambiguity in the Pashto data. Pashto lexemes were taken from the phrases, sentences and verses of the Pashto poetry. 300 ambiguous words and lexemes were analyzed and described through Pashto examples. The research shows that there were lexical, syntactical, semantic and grammatical ambiguities in Pashto language, and grammatical ambiguity was described in hierarchal way with in Pashto examples in prose and verses.
Keywords: Ambiguity, kinds of ambiguity, lexical ambiguity in Pashto context.
Title: Lexical Ambiguity and its types in Pashto Language
Author: Mohammad Usman Solizay
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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