Babel No26 (February 2019)

Articles
Fundamentally flawed words – Frederick Hale on the origins and semantic history of ‘fundamentalism’
Tetun in Timor – Catharina Williams-van Klinken on the rise of a small local language in East Timor
The Changing face of English idioms – Gareth Carrol looks at what idioms can tell us about the evolution of language and its interaction with culture
BLEU machine translation – Eirini Chatzikoumi asks how we can know if Google Translate and co are actually any good
Text machina – Hannah Little looks at AI in the final part of her series on sci-fi
It’s not about cats – Stefanie Sturm, Pedro Tiago Martins, Alejandro Andirko and Thomas O’Rourke investigate what different disciplines can teach us about our capacity for language

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