This volume is a "sampling" of the works of 18 living poets whom the author knew in Lahore, Pakistan between 1959 and 1962, and whom he considers to be representative of the style and quality of the "gazel" genre. Each selection appears in Urdu (Arabic script), with its English translation, and explanatory notes. The…

The experiment described here was designed to find out which of two methods of testing--blank-filling and translation--gave the more accurate guide to linguistic ability. Two tests were devised to elicit identical correct answers using different means (blank-filling and translation). They were administered to two different classes of Guinean lycee…

The SIRIUS language is intended for solving both numerical and analytical problems. The new language is realized by means of a two-phase translator. The first phase is a translation into an intermediate (Polish-nonparenthetic) language; the second phase is an interpretation from this language. Two modes of program execution are envisaged in the…

The author of this Japanese-English wordbook suggests that it may be used by Japanese writers of English, by those translating from Japanese into English, and by learners of Japanese, in addition to its main intended uses as an aid to the preparation of teaching material and as a work of reference for teachers. A translator will need to supplement…

In the first section of this paper, the author analyzes concepts and theoretical issues found to be significant for the topics of investigation but neither sufficiently explicated nor fully incorporated into the studies to be described later. It is felt that much further work needs to be done in order to achieve such goals. In the second section,…

Authors and editors faced with the problem of rendering Russian names or words into English are forced to transliterate the Cyrillic alphabet according to the needs of their readers. This manual presents four systems, ranging from one for works intended for a broad public to one which may be consistently applied in publications requiring…

FMS/3 is a system for producing hard copy documentation at high speed from free format text and command input. The system was originally written in assembler language for a 12K IBM 360 model 20 using a high speed 1403 printer with the UCS-TN chain option (upper and lower case). Input was from an IBM 2560 Multi-function Card Machine. The model 20…

VOLUME 1 OF A 4-VOLUME WORK ON BEGINNING INDONESIAN CONTAINS THE FIRST 6 LESSONS OF A TOTAL OF 24. THESE SIX LESSONS PROVIDE DRILLS IN BASIC INDONESIAN SENTENCE PATTERNS INVOLVING THE USE OF TERMS OF ADDRESS, POLITE FORMULAS AND RESPONSES, AUXILIARIES, COMMANDS, AND ABSOLUTE EXPRESSIONS. RELATED REPORTS ARE ED 010 456 THROUGH ED 010 459. (GD)…

VOLUME 2 OF A 4-VOLUME WORK ON BEGINNING INDONESIAN CONTAINS LESSONS 7-12 OF A TOTAL OF 24. THESE SIX LESSONS PROVIDE DRILLS IN BASIC INDONESIAN SENTENCE PATTERNS INVOLVING THE USE OF DIFFICULT VERBS, THE ACTIVE VOICE, INVERTED NARRATIVE CLAUSES, INTERROGATIVE WORDS, AND COUNTING METHODS. RELATED REPORTS ARE ED 010 456 THROUGH ED 010 459. (GD)

A READER IN MODERN URDU PROSE IS PROVIDED FOR STUDENTS WHO ALREADY HAVE A BASIC COMMAND OF PAKISTANI URDU GRAMMAR, SPEECH, AND ALPHABET. FIVE SHORT STORIES ARE INCLUDED. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION DEALING WITH EACH AUTHOR PRECEDES EACH SHORT STORY. TO FACILITATE TRANSLATION, EACH STORY IS PROVIDED WITH A GLOSSARY AND A SET OF NOTES EXPLAINING DIFFICULT…

A LINGUISTIC PROCESSING SYSTEM, WHICH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR CHINESE TO ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION, UTILIZING THE CONTEXTUAL ASSOCIATIVE METHOD WAS DESCRIBED. THE REPORT INCLUDES (1) AN EXPLANATION OF THE LINGUISTIC PROCESSING SYSTEM, (2) MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTIC ANALYSES, AND (3) AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH INFLECTION. MACHINE APPLICABILITY WAS…

Describes the preparation of the translation student's terminology research paper, and its pedagogical applications. (AM)

Lists 45 references dating from 1955 to 1972, relating to lexicography, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and translation. (AM)

A personalized account of methods, difficulties, successes and failures encountered in the translation of poetry. Some rules are given: distinguish kinds of translation, simple or artistic; neither systematically stick to nor avoid rhyme. Several French-German translations illustrate the points discussed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Examines the prospects for the use of computers in solving linguistics problems and discusses questions of linguistic theory which relate to the functioning of a language within the communicatory system of "man-machine-man." (EJS)