List of linguistic example sentences

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Examples used to illustrate linguistic phenomena:

independence of syntax:

  Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Noam Chomsky)

(?):

  (Steven Pinker's Lady Mondegreen example)

lexical ambiguity:

  Time flies like an arrow...
  Fruit flies like a banana (?)

syntactic ambiguity:

  The man saw the boy with the telescope.

syntactic ambiguity and incremnality:

  The horse raced past the barn fell
  (see also Garden Path Sentence)

semantic scope ambiguity and anaphora resolution:

  Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it.

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