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If we don't assume a priori what the glyph categories are, would there be any way to infer them reliably from the line patterns?

This is something that Emma and I investigated in our You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. See in particular p.9 and 10. While we focussed on a specific phenomenon (how the last glyph of words tends to correlate with the first glyph of the following word), it is possible that the issue could be analysed in a more general way, including start-start correlations and end-end correlations. Torsten pointed out You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that shows an interesting set of tables about this.

An entirely different "Voynich grammar" line of research I tried is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: basically, an unsupervised classification algorithm that maximizes the possibility of inferring the class of the next word in a sentence on the basis of the class of the current word. This method does not depend on glyph categories at all. My research did not lead to much progress: it mostly confirmed the fact that Voynichese words that behave similarly tend to be morphologically close (much more so than in English, for instance).