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Marcus Contextual Grammars

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Formal Languages and Applications

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 148))

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The decade of the 1950s has witnessed great steps forward in the systematic investigation of natural languages by means of mathematical tools. With the publication of Chomsky’s pioneering book [5] in 1957, the generative approach emerged, while, at the same time, research done within the Russian school of Mathematics gave a new start in the development of analytical mathematical models of language.

Work supported by gtant SAB2000-0145 from the Secretaría de Estado de Educación y Universidades, Spanish Ministry for Education, Culture and Sport.

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Ceterchi, R. (2004). Marcus Contextual Grammars. In: Martín-Vide, C., Mitrana, V., Păun, G. (eds) Formal Languages and Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39886-8_17

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