Voynich theories and Voynich solutions

[MarcoP]

I believe that plurals were understood by recognizing that two or more nouns were referenced by a third noun. So, think of the difference between, "Alessandro, the son of Umberto," and "Fergus and Patrick, the sons of Michael." But this could also be cross referenced against ages on gravestones, which should always be in plural, "74 years." Of course, if there is more than one way or forming plurals then it gets harder. But given the length of the manuscript we should always have lots of examples to cross reference.

Thank you, Emma! This is extremely interesting.
The context provided by the Voynich labels is of course very different from that of tomb inscriptions but, as you wrote, the manuscript has enough text to provide a good deal of information. In this case, one can speculate that VMS labels could mostly be singular nouns, while the text body will contain a much larger number of plural nouns: some of the differences between label and non-label statistics might be correlated with how noun number works.... I will see if I can get some numbers to explore this idea.

I'll answer the other part of your question later, as I certainly believe that we could (potentially) work out the grammar and meaning even were the language unknown. Though it would be an immense task.

It is very likely that the Voynich ms was written at a time when some people could read it: the language doesn't seem to be as remote in time as Etruscan and it is well possible that its cognates are still spoken today. Yet your faith in the possibilities of your method is reassuring. I am looking forward to read more of how it is possible to infer the meaning of an unknown language!