Grammar, formal

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A name given to certain types of calculi (cf. Calculus) used in mathematical linguistics to describe the structure of natural (and some artificial, particularly programming) languages. See Grammar, generative; Grammar, dominating; Grammar, categorial; Grammar, transformational.


Comments

Cf. also Formal languages and automata.

References

[a1] J.E. Hopcroft, J.D. Ulman, "Introduction to automata theory, languages and computation", Addison-Wesley (1979) Template:ZBL