RE: VMs: Proving Gibberish

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

17/08/2004 4:16:06 PM, elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>I mean, yeah, doublets and triplets appear to be more common in the VM than in 
>natural languages, but do their frequencies really exceed the mere statistics?

Such a test is meaningless. A natural language does not work by randomly
drawing words from a dictionary. In many, reduplication is a way of
expressing the plural. In Sumerian it can also express the superlative 
and the aorist. Once again, I have given many examples of this.



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