Tree Adjunct Grammars

In this paper, a tree generating system called a tree adjunct grammar is described and its formal properties are studied relating them to the tree generating systems of Brainerd (Information and Control14 (1969), 217-231) and Rounds (Mathematical Systems Theory 4 (1970), 257-287) and to the recognizable sets and local sets discussed by Thatcher (Journal of Computer and System Sciences1 (1967), 317-322; 4 (1970), 339-367) and Rounds. Linguistic relevance of these systems has been briefly discussed also.