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The second elementary formalism of generative grammar was published in 1936 by the American logician E. Post. Known as rewrite or Post production system, it originated in the mathematical context of recursion theory and is closely related to automata theory and computational complexity theory.
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Hausser, R. (1999). Language hierarchies and complexity. In: Foundations of Computational Linguistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03920-5_9
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