A primary concern of mathematical linguistics is to effectively enumerate those sets of words, sentences, etc., that play some important linguistic role. Typically, this is done by means of generating the set in question, a definitional method that we introduce in Section 2.1 by means of examples and counterexamples that show the similarities and the differences between the standard mathematical use of the term ‘generate’ and the way it is employed in linguistics.
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Kornai, A. (2008). The elements. In: Mathematical Linguistics. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-986-6_2
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