different between grammatical vs amphiboly

English

Etymology

From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammatic?lis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?m?t'?k?l, IPA^(key): /????mæt?k?l/

Adjective

grammatical (comparative more grammatical, superlative most grammatical)

1. Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.

   Your writing is not grammatical enough for publication.

2. Of or pertaining to grammar.

   The writing was measured for both grammatical complexity and accuracy factors.

Synonyms

• grammatic

Antonyms

• (acceptable): ungrammatical

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammatic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.ma.ti.kal/

Adjective

grammatical (feminine singular grammaticale, masculine plural grammaticaux, feminine plural grammaticales)

1. grammatical

Antonyms

• agrammatical

Derived terms

• grammaticalement
• mot grammatical

Related terms

• grammaire

Further reading

• “grammatical” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Adjective

grammatical m

1. Alternative form of granmatical

English

Etymology

From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /am?f?b?li/

Noun

amphiboly (countable and uncountable, plural amphibolies)

1. (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
   • 1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation

     Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon.

   • 1931, Adrian Coates, "Philosophy as Criticism and Point of View," Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 23, p. 339,

     By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.

   • 1987, Jeffrey Buechner, "Radically Misinterpreting Radical Interpretation," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 410,

     The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.

Usage notes

• Strictly speaking, in an amphiboly the individual words are unambiguous; the ambiguity results entirely from the linguistic manner in which they have been combined.

Derived terms

• amphibology

Translations

See also

• equivocation

References

Anagrams

• ambophily