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Context-Free Grammar

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A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

context-free grammar

// n. (CFG) (more fully, context-free phrase structure grammar, or CF-PSG) (also type 2 grammar) A formal grammar in which all of the rules which directly license local subtrees are context-free rules. Among current theories of grammar, GPSG represents the principal attempt at constructing context-free grammars which are adequate for the characterization of the grammars of natural languages.

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Context-Free Grammar from A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. ISBN: 0-203-39336-8. Published: 2003–08–28. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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