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Formal Properties of Grammars (Noam Chomsky)
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Chomsky examines grammars as formal systems that generate the sentences of a language.
Restrictions on production rules define different classes of grammars and languages.
The analysis compares their expressive power and the structures their derivations assign.
These distinctions connect linguistic descriptions with automata and the theory of computation.
The work asks which formal properties matter for representing natural-language syntax.
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