Various Graphs and Analyses

[srjskam]

Thanks for the tables, but I don't see how to read them.  Are there ": : patterns" in them?
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In natural languages these ": : patterns" seem rare.  Even when the German grammar seems to allow "in" or "vor" pair indifferently with "die" or "der", in any particular text you will find that "in" has a definite tendency to partner with "die" and "vor" with "der".  Or vice-versa.

The table wasn't the best (and also used very bad scheme for the colorblind), so I made a new one. This is simply pair counts from a German text (Das Lob der Narrheit by Desiderius Erasmus). Of course different combinations have different frequencies, but I think this shows pretty clearly that there are sets of words that prefer the company of another set: (sie|sich)(nicht|in|mit) and (in|mit|von)(der|den|dem). (Never mind the heretical capitalization, I did it for normalization.) This is arbitrarily cut at 20 most paired words.

   

I have to clarify I'm not claiming this is what can be seen in the Currier B chart, it's just an experiment to see if there is any similarity. Not very much is the answer.

And you must be aware that many languages (including Classical Latin) make little or no use of prepositions and articles, and use word order or declensions instead. Articles and prepositions as separate words are a characteristic feature of Romance and Germanic languages.  

Yes, that's why I specified "languages that have prepositions and articles". Also add Greek to that soup.