31-01-2020, 01:56 PM
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The article covers "the strange lack for parallel context surrounding different occurrences of the same word." (D'Imperio 1978, p. 30)
The method used in the paper depends on punctuation. But this only means that the paper underrates context dependency in the case of texts using natural languages. In the case of the VMS no punctation exists. Therefore, the handling of punctation doesn't do any harm.
In natural languages words depends on their context. We refer to this type of context dependency rules as grammar. For the VMS it is not possible to describe rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, since clauses or phrases doesn't exist (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 82).
It is is only possible to find a few repetitive phrases in the VMS. In fact there are only 35 word sequences which use at least three words and appear at least three times. Only for five of these sequences is the word order unchanged for the whole manuscript, whereas for 30 out of 35 phrases the word order does change. An additional observation is that in 24 out of 35 cases these repeated sequences use at least two words which are either spelled the same or very similarly. This means sequences in the VMS occur repeated since the words are similar. (see Timm 2014, p. 3)
The method used in the paper depends on punctuation. But this only means that the paper underrates context dependency in the case of texts using natural languages. In the case of the VMS no punctation exists. Therefore, the handling of punctation doesn't do any harm.
In natural languages words depends on their context. We refer to this type of context dependency rules as grammar. For the VMS it is not possible to describe rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, since clauses or phrases doesn't exist (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 82).
It is is only possible to find a few repetitive phrases in the VMS. In fact there are only 35 word sequences which use at least three words and appear at least three times. Only for five of these sequences is the word order unchanged for the whole manuscript, whereas for 30 out of 35 phrases the word order does change. An additional observation is that in 24 out of 35 cases these repeated sequences use at least two words which are either spelled the same or very similarly. This means sequences in the VMS occur repeated since the words are similar. (see Timm 2014, p. 3)
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