19-03-2016, 08:33 PM
Quote:Your assumption seems to be that languages have a single fixed word order that is used in all cases, and that's wrong.
Nope, my point is not that there must be a fixed word order. My point is that beside that similar words do co-occur no word order exist for the VMS. With other words, my point is that there is no structure or word order. The VMS is only containing words similar to each other.
Moreover similar words are related to each other. Similar words occur with comparable frequency, whereas types which contain less frequent glyphs or bigrams in most cases occur less frequently. It is possible to describe a system for the VMS. But this would be a system of similar words. In natural languages a word normally (cf. poems) is used because of its meaning and not because it is similar to a previously written one. (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as Timm 2016 p. 7)