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    9 August 2023

    • curprev 21:0621:06, 9 August 2023Laqme talk contribs 1,026 bytes +1,026 Created page with "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'..."