I'm still confused about the difference between these two concepts. Could you explain it with some examples? Thank you in advance!:)
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3This question is broad enough to be answered in textbook chapters or even whole books, not a few sentences in a Stack Exchange post. Which textbook are you using for your class? Have you checked there? If yes, what specifically are you unsure about? – lemontree♦ Oct 21 '20 at 11:47
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1An answer to the question can be found in e.g. H. de Svart "Introduction to natural language semantics" ch. 5, J. Lyons "Linguistic semantics" ch. 7.3, or E. Zimmermann & W. Sternefeld "Introduction to semantics" ch. 3.4. – lemontree♦ Oct 21 '20 at 18:10
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@lemontree⦠Thank you for your kind reply! Actually I'm reading Chapter 4 Case of HNG. Understanding Minimalism, but it's too overwhelming to me. I'll check out what you recommended. I'm really appreciative! :) – ronghe Oct 27 '20 at 3:25
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3If you want to come more from the syntactic side, you could also give S. Müller "Grammatical Theory" ch. 3.1.3, A. Carnie "Sytax: A Generative Introduction" ch. 12 .2-12.3, L. Haegman "Introduction to Government and Binding Theory" ch. 9 or A. Radford et. al. "Linguistics: An Introduction" ch. 23 a try. – lemontree♦ Oct 27 '20 at 11:26
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@lemontree⦠That's so considerate of you! Thank you very much! :) – ronghe Oct 27 '20 at 13:38
They are special terminology from the Y model.
DS
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SS
/ | (covert movement)
PF LF
Today it is more common to draw a kind of T model.
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LF __SO__ PF
No Deep Structure (DS) in the T model. Surface Structure is nowadays called Spell-out and is rather a point in the derivation (a point in time) than a representational level. There is "before" and "after Spell-out" rather than "at Surface Structure".
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Sorry I forgot to add examples for you. Quantifier raising for example can be analyzed as being the difference between what you hear (aka Surface Structure) and LF. – purlupar Oct 28 '20 at 1:59
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1You're welcome -- see also this answer linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/6016/4904 about "base generation" -- very much related. – purlupar Oct 31 '20 at 2:25