diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java.g b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java.g
index 56e165da0..9902ab930 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java.g
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java.g
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@ field!
 						     mods,
 							 #(#[TYPE,"TYPE"],rt),
 							 IDENT,
+							 LPAREN,
 							 param,
+							 RPAREN,
 							 tc,
 							 s2);}
 			|	v:variableDefinitions[#mods,#t] SEMI