Identifying function words

[Anton]

Almost 50 occurrences of olol and if you include the ones that cross spaces, there are almost 150.

That's not as significant as the presence of occurrences of ol ol. In some language, some word might be written as two consecutive "and" 's, like in Latin quoquo is written as two consecutive quo's, but when you have two "and" 's in succession divided by a space, that's something strange in any language.

Anton, should we perhaps make a separate thread about the search for and? The advantage of focusing on one function word is that once we have a few candidates, they can be accurately compared to the distribution in a corpus of any language we want.

I don't think right now there are definite results to discuss... if they are obtained, one could open a separate thread of course. I was focusing more on methodology. Likewise, the same approach would be valid for "or". The word "or" is something which one normally would not expect to be paragraph-final as well - although, probably, it's not as frequent as "and".