A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ (pl. strata /
/) n. 1. In Relational Grammar, any one of the several levels of organization typically postulated as forming part of the syntactic structure of a sentence.
2. More generally, in any theory of grammar in which the structure of a sentence is regarded as consisting of two or more representations employing the same vocabulary, any one of those representations. NOTE: this usage is recommended by Ladusaw (1988); compare level (sense 2).
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