Amphiboly

The structure of a sentence has more than one possible meaning.

Syntactic ambiguity is characterized by the potential for a sentence to yield multiple interpretations due to its ambiguous syntax.

Examples:

• Young men and women. (are the women young?)
• Who is the doctor. (it's Doctor Who!)

This form of ambiguity is not derived from the varied meanings of individual words but rather from the relationships among words and clauses within a sentence, concealing interpretations beneath the word order. Consequently, a sentence presents as syntactically ambiguous when it permits reasonable derivation of several possible grammatical structures by an observer.