q as waw?

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Stephen Bax and Derek Vogt have proposed the idea that EVA:daiin could be a conjunction. On Stephen's site, there has been some discussion about how to possibly understand more of q- and daiin as possible conjunctions.

Here is something I just posted You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

Here are some data that I think could be relevant, but I currently have no idea of how to interpret them.

Emma May Smith has posted about the very interesting You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (line as a functional unit) phenomenon.

Interestingly, EVA:daiin and the EVA:q- prefix exhibit very different behaviors when examined with respect to their position in lines. Considering the initial herbal section (f1r-f57r, 9507 lines), daiin occurs in 403 lines, q- in 635: the numbers are close enough to be meaningfully compared.

daiin appears at the beginning of lines 12.2% of the times (49 times), at the end of lines 15.6% (63 times). These frequencies are compatible with what is statistically expected if the word was unaffected by LAAFU.

On the other hand, q- appears in the first word of lines 29.9% of the times (190 times), at the end of lines 4.7% (30 times). The q- prefix is strongly affected by the position in lines, with a clear preference for appearance at the beginning of lines: in that position it is more than 6 times as frequent as at the end of lines.

Correction: I previously forgot to remove {plant} annotations from the transcription I used. This caused a significant under-estimation of end-line occurrences.

The corrected numbers are:
daiin tot:404 | initial:50 (12.4%) | final:100 (24.8%)
q- tot: 655 | initial:191 (30.1%) | final:59 (9.3%)