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The paper studies the family of Boolean LL languages, generated by Boolean grammars and usable with the recursive descent parsing. It is demonstrated that over a one-letter alphabet, these languages are always regular, while Boolean LL subsets of Σ*a* obey a certain periodicity property, which, in particular, makes the language anb2n|n0 non-representable. It is also shown that linear conjunctive LL grammars cannot generate any language of the form L·a,b, with L non-regular, and that no languages of the form L·c*, with non-regular L, can be generated by any linear Boolean LL grammars. These results are used to establish a detailed hierarchy and closure properties of these and related families of formal languages.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5132-5155 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Theoretical Computer Science |
Volume | 412 |
Issue number | 39 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 9 Sep 2011 |
ID: 41140892