Three times a year I get my copy of a wholly respectable mainstream linguistics journal. Its scholarly articles are rich in examples from varied languages, and alongside these detailed analyses it advances theoretical claims and counterclaims. Its many reviews point to much more of the same. But this journal content is of interest here for another reason than these scholarly ones. First, refere...

This talk discusses some o f the challenges posed for theoretical linguistics by transla­ tional problems. It briefly discusses different aspects o f the concept o f translational equivalence and the degree to which this relation may be captured by machine translation (MT) systems. It is argued that the formal requirements and multilingual perspective of MT provide new criteria o f adequacy for...