Vord paradigm tool

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Here is a non-conforming vord, from the red-inked text on 67r: LYSHYKCHY

We can locate the problem. An additional [k] has intruded into the consonants in compartment C. Otherwise, it conforms. (It is an interesting vord with an interesting symmetry. It seems the [k] has been imported into compartment C - against the rules - in order to make the symmetry.) It is parsed in this model: ly - kshy - kchy.

I am unable to find this word. I guess it might be a mis-reading of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., at the bottom of the 67r2 circle.

In this case, the presence of two gallows suggests that the anomalous word is the result of the concatenation of two ordinary words. The Zandbergen-Landini transcription has an uncertain space here and the word is transcribed as 'lkshy,kchy'. In general, 'y' has a rather marked preference to appear at the beginning or end of words: an occurrence of 'y' in the middle of a relatively long word immediately suggests that two words are being concatenated.  Indeed, 'kchy' is a common word and (though 'lkshy' never occurs) 'lkchy' appears in the top line of f113r.

I would argue that also the hypothetical "lyshykchy" looks more like the concatenation of two words rather than the result of the insertion of 'k': by removing 'k' you get "lyshychy" and this is also anomalous, since the sequence 'shych' never appears in the manuscript and 'BENCHyBENCH' only occurs twice as 'shysho' and 'shyshol' (a single token each).

Stolfi has a great discussion of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. detected by his grammar: the most numerous category is "Multiple: words that do not have a properly nested layer structure, and seem to be two more normal words joined together (716 tokens, 55% of the abnormal words)". Of course, he assigns 'lkshykchy' to this category.