[Ads-l] Antedating of "Surface Structure"

[Shapiro, Fred]

surface structure (OED 1964)

1961 William G. Moulton in _PMLA_ 76:4 (JSTOR)

Here we have two phrases with the same surface structure: verbal noun plus prepositional phrase.

Fred Shapiro

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