Abstract
The two most familiar sources of ambiguity in an ambiguous sentence or phrase are ambiguous lexical items like bank, or alternative syntactic construals involving hierarchical structure (as in He saw the man with the telescope) or construction (as in The chimp is cooking). However, there are also examples of phrasal ambiguity, called here “crypto-ambiguity”, which involve neither lexical nor syntactic ambiguity. The ambiguity in these cases is essentially an ambiguity of scope. What they have in common is that a semantic process targets not the whole of the meaning of a lexical item, but alternative sub-portions. These sub-portions may be facets, micro-senses, qualia roles, active zones or classical semantic features.
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