Sequential word repetitions in the VMS

[MarcoP]

Wonderful work again, Marco. 
As you indicate, it seems clear that in literary language (in the languages we are familiar with) we have to count on poetic license to get this many duplications

Thank you, Koen!
I am glad you are interested in the subject!
I am not sure it's possible to find these many duplication in a modern European text. In particular, matches for the quasi-duplication seem to be hard to find. But I am ignorant and I may be wrong.

Note that in a pre-modern setting, there were few spelling rules, so in theory it doesn't matter whether these words are written as one or two words. For example if [pin] means chair and [pinpin] means chairs, then the spelling of the plural could be "pinpin" or "pin pin" depending on scribal preferences.

The wiki has a huge amount of examples from many language families: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Yes, I read the wiki page following Emma's mention of Reduplication in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
It's quite interesting that Reduplication sometimes involves a prefix that could work vaguely like EVA:q-
See for instance this paper by Annie Montaut about Reduplication in Hindi (paragraph 2.1 in particular).
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shadi-vadi / atma-vatma seem interesting examples.

It may be interesting to see if we can check a text in one of the listed languages just to get an idea. Too bad nobody on the forum can understand these.

Understanding the text might not be strictly necessary to compare statistics.

Alternatively of course, the text type (scientific/practical/instructional?) might cause the reduplication in Voynichese. If the contents describe various procedures, you can get reduplication which would lack elegance in a literary text. But I can't think of a good concrete example at the moment. Something like directions for example: "to reach the church, you go left, left and then right". But I'd think that the first option (linguistic process) might be more likely.

Everything is possible, but without actual examples it is mostly speculation. Again, I find quasi-duplication difficult to explain in the languages I am familiar with, but the Hindi paper suggests that similar things happen in natural languages. Of course, I have no idea if the phenomenon in Hindi might be as extensive as it appears to be in Voynichese.