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Table of contents :
Content: 1. Origin and Motivation --
2. Formal Language Theory Prerequisites --
3. Contexts (Adjoining) Everywhere --
4. Basic Classes of Contextual Grammars --
5. Generative Capacity --
6. Language Theoretic Properties --
7. Linguistically Relevant Properties --
8. Grammars with Restricted Selection --
9. Grammars with Minimal/Maximal Use of Selectors --
10. Variants of Contextual Grammars --
11. Two-Level Contextual Grammars --
12. Regulated Contextual Grammars --
13. A Generalization: n-Contextual Grammars --
14. A Dual Model: Insertion Grammars --
15. Further Topics --
16. Open Problems and Research Topics.