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We review the properties of Global Index Grammars (GIGs), a grammar formalism that uses a stack of indices associated with productions and has restricted context-sensitive power. We show how the control of the derivation is performed and how this impacts in the descriptive power of this formalism both in the string languages and the structural descriptions that GIGs can generate.
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Castaño, J.M. Global Index Grammars and Descriptive Power. J Logic Lang Inf 13, 403–419 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-004-2113-y
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