Identifying function words

[Koen G]

I like this avenue of investigation, to focus on finding "and", but depending on the language this may be more difficult - even if it's not a clitic. For example, in modern Turkish, "and" is expressed by ve, de, da, ile... There are also constructions with ister and ya, where those words also replace English and. And that's just after a superficial google search. This means that the relative frequency of each of these words will be lower than that of "and" in English.