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    This document discusses the difference between deep structure and surface structure in linguistics. Deep structure refers to the underlying abstract representation of a sentence that determines its structural interpretation. Surface structure is the actual syntactic form a sentence takes. Transformation rules can change surface structure but are based on and apply to the deep structure, which represents thematic relations like subjects and objects regardless of their position in surface structure.

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    This document discusses the difference between deep structure and surface structure in linguistics. Deep structure refers to the underlying abstract representation of a sentence that determines its structural interpretation. Surface structure is the actual syntactic form a sentence takes. Transformation rules can change surface structure but are based on and apply to the deep structure, which represents thematic relations like subjects and objects regardless of their position in surface structure.

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    This document discusses the difference between deep structure and surface structure in linguistics. Deep structure refers to the underlying abstract representation of a sentence that determines its structural interpretation. Surface structure is the actual syntactic form a sentence takes. Transformation rules can change surface structure but are based on and apply to the deep structure, which represents thematic relations like subjects and objects regardless of their position in surface structure.

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    Deep Structure vs.

    Surface Structure
    One of the most important concepts proposed
    by Chomsky
    The Generativism paradigm claims that the concept of
    structural analysis proposed by Structuralism paradigm is
    too shallow, it only reaches the level of surface structure.
    Surface structure can be defined as the syntactic form
    they take as actual sentences.
    forms of sentences resulted from modification/
    transformation.
    Consider these sentences:

    (1) You close the door.


    (2) The door is closed by you.
    (3) Close the door!
    The first sentence is active, second is passive, and the last
    is imparative.
    However, if you take a look those closely, you will find that
    those three are very closely related, even identical.
    They seem to be identical, since they have the same
    undelying abstract representation that is called deep
    structure.
    deep structure is defined as an abstract level of
    structural organization in which all the elements
    determining structural interpretation are represented.
    If you want to analyze the relation of those three
    sentences, the first you have to know about the deep
    structure of them, since deep structure is the input
    of transformation rules.
    We cannot apply transformation rules if you
    dont have deep structure.
    transformation rules are sets of rules which will change
    or move constitiuents in the structures derive from
    the phrase structure rules.

    From the above example, it can be concluded that deep
    structure then is a pure representation of thematic
    relations.
    Anything which is interpreted as the subject or object of a
    given predicate will be in the subject or object position of
    that predicate at Deep structure no matter where it is
    found at Surface structure.

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