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List of all line-initial words - Oocephalus - 08-03-2017
I promised to do this already a few days ago, but couldn't find time for it. Sorry!
So here is a list of all line-initial words in the VMS. It's taken from the Takahashi transcription (I haven't checked the accuracy of anything, so there are probably some errors), excluding single-word "lines", most of which are actually labels.
From left to right, the columns are:
- the word type
- number of line-initial occurrences
- number of all occurrences
- proportion of occurrences which are line-initial
There are in total 1958 word types, including:
- 1000 unique ones
- 114 others that occur only line-initially
- 844 that are not exclusively line-initial
I hope this will be helpful.
RE: List of all line-initial words - Davidsch - 08-03-2017
I've done this already a week ago and much much more (and published it. Since there are no people interested and I also I've made some conclusions, I decided to take it offline)
Strange numbers you have. I've used only lines not labels, because you can not call such a text "a line"
I have:
3905 filled lines
of which from the unique list of words overall 1771 words
of which with only 1 repeat: 1299
The words that are position-unique were discussed already.
RE: List of all line-initial words - Oocephalus - 08-03-2017
Davidsch: I have 4354 lines. Maybe the difference is because there are some labels consisting of several words, which my script would have counted.
RE: List of all line-initial words - Davidsch - 09-03-2017
I checked the top of the file and it is identical to my results, with respect to the previous remark.
RE: List of all line-initial words - Addsamuels - 28-01-2023
This point is indeed interesting and also it seems that the first word of each page seems to be of less frequent than average