Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 533-541 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81’44 A Typology of Linguistic Ambiguity Marina A. Yuzhannikova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 21.12.2014, received in revised form 16.01.2015, accepted 30.01.2015 Although ambiguity is an integral part of any natural language up to now its study was focused mainly on ambiguity resolution. <...> However, there is a growing interest to various linguistic typologies for development of new tools for automatic language analysis. <...> The fi rst section of this paper discusses the problem of ambiguity classifi cation and is illustrated with relevant examples. <...> The second part of the article provides the complete typology of ambiguity based on Russian corpora, and it is presented within the table of complex ambiguity description. <...> The typology consists of nine columns of extralinguistic information and twelve of linguistic description. <...> As a result the typology allows to make a complete analysis of each example of ambiguity regardless of its intentionality. <...> Introduction Nowadays due to the advances of computer technologies there is a growing interest to empirical study of linguistic phenomena that were not previously available for the natural language analysis. <...> To construct the really powerful tool for language analysis one need not only the developed software but also the highly elaborated linguistic linguistic typologies is one of theory. <...> There are only few typologies of ambiguity, which can be used for the automatic ambiguity recognition tasks, yet. <...> Most of the works in this fi eld are focusing on some varieties of ambiguity or some restricted aspects such as only lexical ambiguity, etc. (Franz 1996; Hirst 1992; Lexical ambiguity resolution 1988). <...> This fact explains the timeliness of our investigation, which consist of an attempt of complex ambiguity description. <...> It should be marked in reference to every type of classifi cation that natural language as every live organism is not discreet (Dawkins Marina A. Yuzhannikova. <...> A Typology of Linguistic Ambiguity 1993), especially at organizations, so it the high levels of its is impossible to divide all linguistic phenomena into some varieties exactly and inconsistently. <...> However, within scientifi c description it is obligatory to seek to make the classifi cation as precise <...>