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ABSTRACT
Ambiguity and paraphrase is a common feature of language. Okposi as one of the dialect of Igbo and one of the languages of the world is not an exception. This paper presents a discussion on ambiguity and paraphrase in Igbo. It draw data from okposi speech community and uses the inferential model of linguistic communication to explain the issue of ambiguity and paraphrase as it occurs in the speech community. The paper brings out the sources and types of ambiguity and paraphrase in the language under study. It also investigate the relevance of ambiguity and paraphrase in Igbo. The study refutes the idea that ambiguity and paraphrase is a property of only the predicate and shows that ambiguity can occur in the subject or the predicate of a sentence as shown in the data from the speech community used for the study.
