Thank you, Anton!
As you point out, we could be dealing with two kinds of spacing “errors”:
Both cases suggest that it's a good idea to consider space variability when looking for matches. Personally, I consider the evidence of scribal inconsistency in spacing as a hint to some kind of agglutination, but they might just be errors or whatever.
The numeric example you propose would make the nearby occurrence of the totally unrelated okeeoraiin and okeeo-raiin purely coincidental. The 19 labels that only appear as word sequences in the text and the various dal-based labels in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. would be more coincidences. I don't discard the possibility of coincidence, but I don't see it as an explanation.
Anyway, an analysis of words with a single occurrence (hapax legomenon) that match word sequences could hint to the presence or absence of a spatial correlation: if the two are unrelated (as in your example) they shouldn't be spatially correlated. This seems simple enough to do and I might give it a try in the future.
But of course, I am always biased by my implicit perception that the text is meaningful at all....
As you point out, we could be dealing with two kinds of spacing “errors”:
- by the scribe – this could be the case with okeeo-raiin
- by the transcriptor (Takeshi Takahashi) – this seems to be the case with dol-dam
Both cases suggest that it's a good idea to consider space variability when looking for matches. Personally, I consider the evidence of scribal inconsistency in spacing as a hint to some kind of agglutination, but they might just be errors or whatever.
The numeric example you propose would make the nearby occurrence of the totally unrelated okeeoraiin and okeeo-raiin purely coincidental. The 19 labels that only appear as word sequences in the text and the various dal-based labels in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. would be more coincidences. I don't discard the possibility of coincidence, but I don't see it as an explanation.
Anyway, an analysis of words with a single occurrence (hapax legomenon) that match word sequences could hint to the presence or absence of a spatial correlation: if the two are unrelated (as in your example) they shouldn't be spatially correlated. This seems simple enough to do and I might give it a try in the future.
But of course, I am always biased by my implicit perception that the text is meaningful at all....