(02-03-2023, 07:19 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Such structues are found in natural language: 'again and again', 'time after time', 'drop by drop'.These are possibilities but the difficulty remains to find as many repetitions of diverse words at distance 1 as in the VMs. The repetitions at distance 2 are a lot more frequent in European languages that at distance 1 for all the reasons that you listed. In the VMs they are only a little more frequent.
Or it may be that 'A' is a conjunction, like and, or, then - as part of a text that might read: "(composed of x) AND B AND (y)". A summation of these examples would demonstrate the variations, locations and the repetitions of such structures and provide a comparative vocabulary.
Sequential repetition of vords is only an aspect of local repetition of vords, which is only an aspect of local similarity of vords. They are not separate phenomena: the folio with the record number of sequentially repeated vords on the same line is also the one that has the highest number of lines containing repeated vords (at any distance but on the same line) and the lowest type-token ratio: f75r.