Lexical insertion
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Operation of the base component by which lexical items are inserted into syntactic structure. The resulting structure is a D-structure, which obeys principles of X-bar theory, theta-theory, and the EPP.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Chomsky, N. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory, MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67. Reprinted in: Chomsky (1995).
- Chomsky, N. 1981. Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris, Dordrecht.
- Chomsky, N. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
