Lexical Ambiguity in Eggon Language

Ambiguity is a common phenomenon found across languages and has been studied extensively. Nevertheless, not not much has been done on ambiguity in Eggon. In an attempt to fill the existing gap, the present article studies ambiguity and its intricacies in Eggon Language. Specifically, the research aims at exposing lexical ambiguity in the language, its nature and sources. The study also tries to provide ways of disambiguating such structures. Data is generated through participant observation of native speakers, documented sources (Eggon dictionary) and introspection. Descriptive method is used in analysing the generated data. The findings show that ambiguity is a common phenomenon in Eggon. The use of tone helps to disambiguate some ambiguous words. Moreover, most lexical ambiguities occur due to polysemy and homonymy and can be disambiguated through contextualization. Lexical ambiguity also results in other types of ambiguities in the language, such as semantic and syntactic ambiguities. Further study into dialectal ambiguity will add to Eggon linguistic database.