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underlying form Abstract (sometimes logical) form of a linguistic unit from which the surface form might be derived using transformations.
Example:{cat} AGENT + {hunt} VERB, PAST + {mouse} PATIENT might be an underlying form for the sentences The cat hunted the mouse and The mouse was hunted by the cat.
Topics: Syntactic sentence processing, General linguistic terms