Identifying function words

[Emma May Smith]

What I would suggest offhand is to look for the word "and". It is a universal word (not like an article), it is frequent (sometimes, and the more so in the past, being used in exchange for words such as "then", "so" etc.). And it should be ubiquitous - namely, it should be found even in texts of highly conspective nature which may lack articles or prepositions.

How can it be located? I can think of searching it in between vords relating to homogenous objects - such e.g. as the "Voynich stars". One could just map all the f68r1 and f68r2 objects and see what are the vords joining them (if any).

Some languages use a clitic to express 'and'. Arabic, Hebrew, even Latin do this.