(06-03-2023, 10:26 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The situation is further complicated by the examination of the intervening single vord that creates the separation. There appear to be a variety of different vords used for this purpose, rather than a small set of vords used more frequently. This implies that these three-vord constructions are not a few, commonly repeated linguistic phrases.
This is an intriguing idea... that does not work, unfortunately, if you were expecting this small set of words by analogy with any (?) language.
I tested it on two manuscripts transcriptions whose length is comparable to the VMs: Le livre du chemin de longue estude by Christine de Pisan (ca. 1410) and the Speculum humanae salvationis.
Few sequential repetitions, as usual, a lot more at distance 2, as usual.
Distance-1 (sequential) repetitions are rare, coincidental, they do not reveal any structure.
Distance-2 repetitions are much more common and useful: they identify many function words.
In the French and Latin books the distance-2 repeated words are mostly coordinating conjunctions and other short function words. There are also some infrequent idioms like "day to day". The words in the middle are as diverse as can be. Few occur more than once in this list. The most frequent occur only 3 times.