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Meaning of "surface grammar" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SURFACE GRAMMAR

surface grammar  [ˈsɜːfɪs ˈɡræmə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SURFACE GRAMMAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Surface grammar is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SURFACE GRAMMAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of surface grammar in the English dictionary

The definition of surface grammar in the dictionary is grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of `deep' semantic and syntactic analysis.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SURFACE GRAMMAR


Alabama
ˌæləˈbæmə
anagrammer
ˈænəˌɡræmə
crammer
ˈkræmə
damar
ˈdæmə
deprogrammer
diːˈprəʊɡræmə
gamma
ˈɡæmə
glamor
ˈɡlæmə
glamour
ˈɡlæmə
grammar
ˈɡræmə
hammer
ˈhæmə
jammer
ˈdʒæmə
monogrammer
ˈmɒnəˈɡræmə
nonprogrammer
nɒnˈprəʊɡræmə
programer
ˈprəʊɡræmə
programmer
ˈprəʊɡræmə
rammer
ˈræmə
scammer
ˈskæmə
spammer
ˈspæmə
stammer
ˈstæmə
yammer
ˈjæmə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SURFACE GRAMMAR

surface
surface acoustic wave
surface area
surface condenser
surface friction drag
surface mail
surface noise
surface plate
surface structure
surface tension
surface water
surface worker
surface-active
surface-active agent
surface-to-air
surface-to-surface
surfaceless
surfaceman
surfacemen
surfacer

WORDS THAT END LIKE SURFACE GRAMMAR

case grammar
categorial grammar
dammar
dependency grammar
finite state grammar
formal grammar
generative grammar
Montague grammar
phrase-structure grammar
pivot grammar
stratificational grammar
systemic grammar
tammar
transformational grammar
universal grammar
valency grammar

Synonyms and antonyms of surface grammar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «surface grammar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SURFACE GRAMMAR

Find out the translation of surface grammar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of surface grammar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «surface grammar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

表面语法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gramática de superficie
570 millions of speakers

English

surface grammar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सतह व्याकरण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قواعد اللغة السطح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поверхность грамматика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gramática de superfície
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পৃষ্ঠ ব্যাকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grammaire de surface
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tatabahasa permukaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oberfläche Grammatik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

表面文法
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

표면 문법
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gramatika permukaan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngữ pháp bề mặt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேற்பரப்பு இலக்கணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पृष्ठभागावर व्याकरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yüzey grameri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grammatica di superficie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gramatyka powierzchni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поверхня граматика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gramatică de suprafață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιφάνεια γραμματικής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oppervlak taal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

yta grammatik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overflate grammatikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of surface grammar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SURFACE GRAMMAR»

The term «surface grammar» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.528 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SURFACE GRAMMAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about surface grammar

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SURFACE GRAMMAR»

Discover the use of surface grammar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to surface grammar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Universal Grammar and Narrative Form
Yet, insofar as Joyce's text troubles the border between "deep grammar" and " surface grammar," forcing us constantly to negotiate between logical relations and their material manifestation in the structures of language, "Sirens" constitutes an ...
David Herman, 1995
2
Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to Play Games with ...
Or why he needs to distinguish (in advance of any generative grammarian) between 'deep' and 'surface' grammar (Tiefengrammatik versus Oberfldchengrammatik)? In the use of words one might distinguish 'surface grammar' from 'depth ...
Roy Harris, 1990
3
Scientific Rhetoric and Disciplinary Identity: A Critical ...
For one, Hockett admits that the related notion of valence23' also presented in the "Surface Grammar" chapter is "not technical" and is also "metaphorical" (249); Hockett more or less admits that he is uses a key term in the "Surface Grammar" ...
Raymond Oenbring, 2009
4
The Grammar of Discourse
... many levels be thrown out of phase with each other. While the various surface structure units posited in previous sections of this chapter typically encode the repartee units which we have suggested, when notional and surface grammar are ...
Robert E. Longacre, 1996
5
Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science
Petrick [42] has proposed and programmed a recognition system of a transformational grammar which is similar to the MITRE procedure; however, his system does contain algorithms for producing the surface grammar GD and reverse ...
Jacob T. Schwartz, American Mathematical Society
6
A Grammar of Christian Faith: Systematic Explorations in ...
He further distinguished between the surface grammar and the depth grammar of our uses of locutions as signs. The surface grammar pertains to the ordinary grammar of the rules of putting different types of words together into intelligible ...
Joe R. Jones, 2002
7
Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy
The point may be put in Wittgensteinian fashion: the surface grammar of relational statements is misleading, for it suggests a false picture of reality.36 And this is a view which Russell, under the influence of Wittgenstein, came to share. 37 The ...
Richard Gaskin, 2013
8
Encountering Education in the Global: The Selected Works of ...
In both the early and the later work Wittgenstein draws attention to a distinction between 'surface grammar' and 'depth grammar'. This distinction can be used to demonstrate how the conception of grammar has been widened in the later work.
Fazal Rizvi, 2014
9
The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to ...
The competence is the same for everyone, but the performance, the actual surface grammar of an individual language, will differ markedly from culture to culture. The syntactical competence is universal and innate, but the actual performance ...
Grant R. Osborne, 2010
10
Encyclopaedia of the Linguistic Sciences: Issues and Theories
Later developments (Halliday 1966a, 1966b: 1966c, 1967a, 1967b, 1967c, 1968, 1973; Hudson 1971) have recognized two planes within the descriptive model ( Surface grammar and deep grammar) and have outlined the relationship ...
Vennelakaṇṭi Prakāśaṃ, 2008

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Surface grammar [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/surface-grammar>. May 2024 ».
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