For 10 points, name this theory about the common syntax of all human languages created by Noam Chomsky.
Though he abandoned this paradigm decades ago, Ray Jackendoff wrote an influential monograph on it in 1977. The theta criterion is a constraint that applies to this paradigm, which designates empty categories that result from movements or transformations as "traces." The topmost node within this paradigm's central structures, which are exclusively binary-branching, is called the maximal projection of the head. The (*) minimalist program developed bare phrase structure as an alternative to this paradigm, which is typically visualized as a tree branching down from a given type of phrase, such as an inflectional phrase or IP. The creator of this paradigm incorporated it into his theory of generative grammar in the 1970s. For 10 points, name this theory about the common syntax of all human languages created by Noam Chomsky.
Though he abandoned this paradigm decades ago, Ray Jackendoff wrote an influential monograph on it in 1977.
X-bar theory [accept government and binding theory or G&amp;B theory; prompt on generative grammar or anything mentioning Noam Chomsky; prompt on grammar or syntax]