ALL meanings of deep structure
deep struc·ture
D d - noun deep structure a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied 3
- noun deep structure in transformational grammar, the abstract syntactic pattern underlying the construction in the surface structure of a sentence 3
- noun deep structure (in transformational-generative grammar) the underlying semantic or syntactic representation of a sentence, from which the surface structure may be derived. 1