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In generative grammar à la Chomsky, sentences have a '''deep structure''', derived from the syntactic rules, which is transformed into a '''surface structure''' by a variety of operations such as [[movement]].

For example, the rules generating English grammar can be said to produce a deep structure like ''you buy -ed what'', which is transformed into the surface structure sentence "What did you buy?" by rules like wh-movement and irregular conjugation of the verb ''do''.

The same applies to Toaq. It may be a conlang, but designing a deep structure with the right transformations makes [[semantics]] easier to define, while leaving the surface [[syntax]] aesthetically free. A Toaq deep structure like ''súq tua jí heaq {{Done|2}} cea'' is transformed into the sentence {{t|Tua heaq súq jí céa}} by rules including V-to-T movement, serial verb movement, and tone conjugation.

== See also ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_structure_and_surface_structure Deep structure and surface structure] on Wikipedia.

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