A Descriptive Approach to Language-Theoretic Complexity

by James Rogers

Early formal specifications of natural language syntax were quite closely connected to the notion of abstract machines for computing them. This provided a very natural means of gauging the relative difficulty of processing various constructions, as well as offering some insight into the abstract properties of the human language faculty. More recently, this approach has been superseded by one in which languages are specified in terms of systems of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575861364
• ISBN13: 9781575861364
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 205 Pages