Meaning Of The Word Deep structure

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What's The Definition Of Deep structure?

deep structure in American English
in transformational grammar, the abstract syntactic pattern underlying the construction in the surface structure of a sentence
noun: the underlying semantic or syntactic representation of a sentence, from which the surface structure may be derived

deep structure in British English
noun: a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied

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