The paper expounds the general conceptions of the Meaning-Text theory about what a natural language is and how it must be described. In a second part, a formalization of these conceptions-the transductive grammars-is proposed and compared with generative approaches.
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Kahane, S. (2001). What is a natural language and how to describe it? Meaning-text approaches in contrast with generative approaches. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2004, pp. 1–17). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44686-9_1
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