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On restrictions on transformational grammars reducing the generative power

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Various restrictions on transformational grammars have been investigated in order to reduce their generative power from recursively enumerable languages to recursive languages.

It will be shown that any restriction on transformational grammars defining a recursively enumerable subset of the set of all transformational grammars, is either too weak (in the sense that there does not exist a general decision procedure for all languages generated under such a restriction) or too strong (in the sense that there exists a recursive language that cannot be generated by any transformational grammar thus restricted). In addition, some related problems will be discussed.

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  1. Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Theo Janssen, Gerard Kok & Lambert Meertens

  2. Instituut voor Cognitie Onderzoek, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Theo Janssen, Gerard Kok & Lambert Meertens

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Janssen, T., Kok, G. & Meertens, L. On restrictions on transformational grammars reducing the generative power. Linguistic and Philosophy 1, 111–118 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351939

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