Surface Structure (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Linguistics.(in transformational-generative grammar)
  1. a structural representation of the final syntactic form of a sentence, as it exists after the transformational component has modified a deep structure.
  2. the string of words that is actually produced.
noun
  1. a representation of a string of words or morphemes as they occur in a sentence, together with labels and brackets that represent syntactic structure
Surface Structure (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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