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This might be what you’re looking for: https://www.amazon.com/Parsing-Techniques-Practical-Monograp...

Not exactly cheap, but pretty good.

There’s also https://www.amazon.com/Automata-Formal-Languages-Turing-Mach... which focuses more on the Chomsky hierarchy and automata, and doesn’t go into practical parsers and the related grammar types like the first book.

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Yeah, _Automata, Formal Languages, and Turing Machines_ looks like a good topic match (it seems "formal language" is the keyword I was missing?) and Parsing Techniques sounds like an excellent book as well. Thanks for the recommendations!

Yes, you could start with the second book for the basics of formal language theory and then delve into the first book for the various parsing approaches.

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