D-structure

D-structure is that level of representation which is completely determined by lexical information, Theta-theory, the Projection Principle, and X-bar theory, and which is input to the transformational component (see affect alpha) which derives S-Structure (see T-model). Abandoned in Chomsky (1992).

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.