Abstract

Indexed grammars are shown to correspond to an existential monadic second-order logic over phrase structure trees, extended with a single existential quantifier ranging over a certain type of unary function. Indexed grammars are also shown to correspond to contingency grammars, a strengthening of context-free grammars that makes use of such unary functions.

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