| Lemma | deep structure |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Chomsky (1969) |
| Titolo | Aspects of the theory of syntax |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | surface structure (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a "deep structure" that determines its semantic interpretation and a "surface structure" that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component. Thus when we define "deep structures" as "structures generated by the base component", we are, in effect, assuming that the semantic interpretation of a sentence depends only on its lexical items and the grammatical functions and relations represented in the underlying structures in which they appear. A deep structure is a generalized Phrase-marker underlying some well-formed surface structure. |