| 单词 | surface grammar |
| 释义 | > as lemmassurface grammar surface grammar Linguistics the grammar of the most superficial or easily observable level of language, as opposed to that of an underlying level. ΚΠ 1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. i. 168e In the use of words one might distinguish ‘surface grammar’ from ‘depth grammar’. What immediately impresses itself upon us about the use of a word is the way it is used in the construction of the sentence, the part of its use..that can be taken in by the ear.—And now compare the depth grammar, say of the word ‘to mean’, with what its surface grammar [Ger. Oberflächengrammatik] would lead us to suspect. 1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics xxix. 249 This most apparent layer constitutes, we shall say, surface grammar. Beneath it lie various layers of deep grammar, which have much to do with how we speak and understand but which are still largely unexplored, in any systematic way, by grammarians. 2005 Philos. Stud. 122 200 We may be misled by the surface grammar of our language. < as lemmas |
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