A formal definition of the syntactic structure of a language (see href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=syntax">syntax), normally given in terms of href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=production rule">production rules which specify the order of constituents and their sub-constituents in a href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=sentence">sentence (a well-formed string in the language). Each rule has a left-hand side symbol naming a syntactic category (e.g. "noun-phrase" for a {natural language} grammar) and a right-hand side which is a sequence of zero or more symbols. Each symbol may be either a href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=terminal symbol">terminal symbol or a non-terminal symbol. A terminal symbol corresponds to one "href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=lexeme">lexeme" - a part of the sentence with no internal syntactic structure (e.g. an identifier or an operator in a computer language). A non-terminal symbol is the left-hand side of some rule. One rule is normally designated as the top-level rule which gives the structure for a whole sentence. A grammar can be used either to parse a sentence (see href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=parser">parser) or to generate one. Parsing assigns a terminal syntactic category to each input token and a non-terminal category to each appropriate group of tokens, up to the level of the whole sentence. Parsing is usually preceded by href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=lexical analysis">lexical analysis. Generation starts from the top-level rule and chooses one alternative production wherever there is a choice. See also href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=BNF">BNF, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=yacc">yacc, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=attribute grammar">attribute grammar, {grammar analysis}.

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