Language, Cohesion and Form

 

Margaret Masterman

Edited, with an introduction and commentaries, by

Yorick Wilks

 

Cambridge

University Press

2005

 

[ISBN: 13-978-0-521-45489-6; 10 0-521-45489-1]

 

Contents

 

* Starred chapters have following commentaries by the editor (and by Karen Spδrck Jones for chapter 6)

 

Preface … ix

 

Editor’s introduction … 1

 

Part 1: Basic forms for language structure … 19

1. Words … 21

2. Fans and heads * … 39

3. Classification, concept-formation and language … 57

 

Part 2: The thesaurus as a tool for machine translation … 81

4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus … 83

5. What is a thesaurus? … 107

 

Part 3: Experiments in machine translation … 147

6. ‘Agricola in curvo terram dimovit aratro’ * … 149

7. Mechanical pidgin translation … 161

8. Translation* … 187  

 

Part 4: Phrasings, breath groups and text processing … 225

9. Commentary on the Guberina hypothesis … 227

10. Semantic algorithms* … 253

 

Part 5: Metaphor, analogy and the philosophy of science … 281

11. Braithwaite and Kuhn: Analogy-clusters within and without hypothetico-deductive systems in science … 283

 

Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman … 299

Other references … 304

Index … 311