List of all line-initial words
#1
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.


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#2
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.
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#3
Davidsch: I have 4354 lines. Maybe the difference is because there are some labels consisting of several words, which my script would have counted.
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#4
I checked the top of the file and it is identical to my results, with respect to the previous remark.
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#5
This point is indeed interesting and also it seems that the first word of each page seems to be of less frequent than average
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