COND Conditional conjunctions

Biber H37 Xiao G80 MFTE COND Bohmann 75

Definition

Conjunctions expressing condition: if, unless, whether, provided that, etc.

Detection Rules

Default conditional conjunctions rule (based on MFTE). Refines IN.

cql[word={words} & pos="IN"]
Word list (5 items)
if lest otherwise unless whether

Requires: word, pos

Refines: IN

mfte

cql[word={words} & pos="IN"]
Word list (5 items)
if lest otherwise unless whether

Requires: word, pos

pybiber

cql[word={words} & pos="IN"]
Word list (2 items)
if unless

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

If I were you...

Source: le_foll_2024

Even if the treatment works...

Source: le_foll_2024

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
  • pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
  • grieve_2023 — Grieve, Jack (2023) : Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis
  • bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective

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