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I am wondering if there is a described normal form for Context-sensitive grammar, which is something similar to Kuroda normal form and Greibach normal form. That is to say, each rule in such form might be one of the following:

$A\beta\rightarrow a_1\dots a_k B_1 B_2\dots B_n a_{k+1}\dots a_m$

or

$A\rightarrow a_1\dots a_k B_1 B_2\dots B_n a_{k+1}\dots a_m$

where $A,B_i\in N$, $\beta\in(N\cup T)$, $a_i\in T$, $m\geq 0$, $n\geq 0$, $k\geq 0$, $(m+n)>0$.

The idea is that three conditions are satisfied:

  1. In the left-hand side parts of rules, non-terminals always come first.
  2. In the right-hand side parts of rules all non-terminals are grouped together.
  3. Context-sensitive rules contain no more than two symbols in the left-hand side of the rule.

As an answer I would expect either a counter-example, which proves that it is not always possible to transform any context-sensitive grammar into this form, either a link to the existent paper where such normal form is described, either a proof that such normal form exists :-)

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A set of grammars in Kuroda form $\mathcal{K}$ is a strict subset of grammars in the described form $\mathcal{L}$:$\mathcal{K}\subset\mathcal{L}$. This follows from the fact that the first form covers first three forms of Kuroda since $k$ and $m$ can be equal to $0$. And the last one covers '$A$ $\mathcal\rightarrow$ $a$' form since $k$ and $n$ can be equal to $0$.

Let $\mathcal{G}$ - set of all Context-sensitive grammars. Since it's proven that for any Context-sensitive grammar $G\in\mathcal{G}$ there is a mapping $K:\mathcal{G}\rightarrow\mathcal{K}$ (i.e. there is an algorithm of transforming any CS-grammar into Kuroda form), we can say that mapping $L:\mathcal{G}\rightarrow\mathcal{L}$ also always exists and it is equal to $K$: $L$ = $K$.

Indeed, for any $G\in\mathcal{G}$ there should be satisfied the following condition: $L(G)\in\mathcal{L}$. If $L=K$, then $L(G)\in\mathcal{K}\subset\mathcal{L}$.

Q.E.D.

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