In linguistics, specifically in the study of syntax in the tradition of generative grammar (also known as transformational grammar), the deep structure of a linguistic expression is a theoretical construct that seeks to unify several related structures. For example, the sentences `Pat loves Chris` and `Chris is loved by Pat` mean roughly the s...
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(from the article `semantics`) According to the original formulation of generative or transformational grammar, the semantic and the syntactic components were regarded as distinct ... ...appear to be very different on the surface (i.e., in such things as word order), a transformational grammar tries to show that in the `underlying ...
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The sensory maps (both conscious and sub-conscious) that people use to organize and guide their behaviour.
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In Noam Chomsky's transformational grammar, the biological 'hardwiring' in the brain that gives chil
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(in transformational-generative grammar) the underlying semantic or syntactic representation of a sentence, from which the surface structure may be derived. Cf. surface structure.
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A level in grammar — specifically syntax — in which ambiguities in structure do not exist and in which the semantic interpretation of a sentence is clear. Contrast surface structure.
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