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Tombstone and the other nonsurface types did their best to stay out of the way.
Joint Operations Douglass, Keith 2000
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Generative semantics accepts such claims of Chomsky's as that there exists nonsurface syntactic structure and that there are rules of grammar relating pairs of phrase-structure trees, just as it accepts the goal of accounting for the linguistic intuition of the native speaker in terms of formal rules and a general theory.
Deep Language Lakoff, George 1973
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