Awasome Surface Structure References. Fine surface structure n — f smooth surface structure n — f plain surface structure n — f siehe auch: A representation of a string of words or morphemes as they occur in a sentence , together.

In contrast to deep structure (an abstract representation of a sentence), surface structure corresponds to the version of a sentence that can be spoken and heard. It is that aspect of the syntactic description that determines its phonetic form. deep structure, on the other hand, is the formal structure which relates directly. Stratificational grammar.the sememic stratum and.