ON THE QUESTION OF THE PHENOMENON OF AMBIGUITY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article analyzes issues of a phenomena of ambiguity in the English language. It is noted that the phenomenon of polysemy of words is more or less characteristic of all languages, since the patterns that determine this phenomenon are inherent in any language. The syntactic context plays a significant role in the grammatical structure of the English language. In conditions of the analytical system, the framework of an already existing word can move much more freely than in the languages of the syntactic system, and an already existing word can form the basis of a large number of homonyms much more freely. The facts of the English language itself speak in favor of such a statement. This is evidenced by the presence of conversion in the English language, when it is possible, without changing the sound design of the word itself, to rebuild both its lexical and grammatical meaning. The key is the context and its connections with a polysemous word. In addition, these relations constitute one of the most important conditions for the existence of relations of a polysemous word with homonymy and other words. The internal development of the semantics of a number of words plays a significant role, since their development is related to the context. In English, there are many polysemous words from which homonyms originate. However, the ways of forming these words, if they are created from the material resources of the language, are already determined by the internal laws of language development. Moreover, the fact that something or another concept is formed not on the basis of an already existing word, which in this case, as it were, adapts to the expression of a new content, a new meaning, but in connection with the formation of a new word, according to the laws of word production peculiar to a given language in a particular period of its history, can also due to the internal development of the language.