Biber 1988 Features

The 67 features from Biber's (1988) Variation across Speech and Writing, mapped to their CLEF catalogue codes.

Biber Name Code
A. Tense and aspect markers
A1 past tense VBD
A2 perfect aspect PEAS
A3 present tense VPRT
B. Place and time adverbials
B4 place adverbials PLACE
B5 time adverbials TIME
C. Pronouns and pro-verbs
C6 first person pronouns FPP
C7 second person pronouns SPP2
C8 third person pronouns TPP
C9 pronoun IT PIT
C10 demonstrative pronouns DEMOP
C11 indefinite pronouns QUPR
C12 pro-verb DO DOPV
D. Questions
D13 WH questions WHQU
E. Nominal forms
E14 nominalizations NOMZ
E15 gerunds GER
E16 other nouns NN
F. Passives
F17 agentless passives PASS
F18 by-passives PASSBY
G. Stative forms
G19 BE as main verb BEMA
G20 existential THERE EX
H. Subordination features
H21 that verb complements THSC
H22 that adjective complements THADJ
H23 WH clauses WHSC
H24 infinitives INFIN
H25 present participial clauses VBG_CLAUSE
H26 past participial clauses VBN_CLAUSE
H27 past participial WHIZ deletions WHIZBN
H28 present participial WHIZ deletions WHIZBG
H29 that relative on subject THRC
H30 that relative on object THRCO
H31 WH relative on subject WHREL_SUBJ
H32 WH relative on object WHREL_OBJ
H33 pied-piping PIED
H34 sentence relatives SREL
H35 causative subordination CUZ
H36 concessive subordination CONC
H37 conditional subordination COND
H38 other adverbial subordinators OTHADVSUB
I. Prepositional phrases, adjectives, and adverbs
I39 prepositions IN
I40 attributive adjectives JJAT
I41 predicative adjectives JJPR
I42 adverbs RB
J. Lexical specificity
J43 type-token ratio TTR
J44 mean word length AWL
K. Lexical classes
K45 conjuncts CONJUNCTS
K46 downtoners DWNT
K47 hedges HDG
K48 amplifiers AMP
K49 emphatics EMPH
K50 discourse particles DMA
K51 demonstratives DEMO
L. Modals
L52 possibility modals POMD_ALL
L53 necessity modals MDNE
L54 predictive modals PREDMD_ALL
M. Specialized verb classes
M55 public verbs COMM
M56 private verbs MENTAL
M57 suasive verbs SUASIVE
M58 seem/appear EXIST
N. Reduced forms and dispreferred structures
N59 contractions CONT
N60 that deletion THATD
N61 stranded prepositions STPR
N62 split infinitives SPINF
N63 split auxiliaries SPLIT
O. Coordination
O64 phrasal coordination COORD_PHRASAL
O65 clausal coordination CC
P. Negation
P66 synthetic negation XXSYN
P67 analytic negation XX0