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Within recent theories of Generative Grammar, UG has taken the form of a parameterized system. The parameters of UG express the limited range of variation which is permitted with respect to a set of core principles. For example, the X-Bar schemata given in (1) specifies that the categorial rules must conform to an ‘endocentric requirement’; that is, each phrase must contain a lexical head of its own feature specification. However, languages may vary as to the linear position of the head with respect to its complements (represented by ...) (Stowell, 1981).
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Hyams, N. (1987). The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development. In: Roeper, T., Williams, E. (eds) Parameter Setting. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3727-7_1
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