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Ambiguity refers to words, phrases, or sentences which can be validly understood to mean multiple different things

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How can syntactic ambiguity with pronouns be avoided?

For a conlang, it seems like one other way to avoid ambiguity that I do not see noted in previous answers is to have the language enforce grammatical rules such that a pronoun must always refer to a specific … So in your example, the grammar would remove the ambiguity as such a rule would refer to James in your original example: Adam sent the essay to James to help him with his writing And if Adam was …
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