Extracting transparent compounds from Lexibank

Many languages make use of transparent compounding processes in order to express certain words in their lexicon. With time, these processes can loose their transparency, making them hard to detect automatically. With large data collections simple tests can be designed to detect transparent compounds and investigate their distribution. This study illustrates how a very rudimentary analysis of cross-linguistically recurring transparent compound patterns can be applied to Lexibank data with a few lines of Python code.