DEFNEG YAML source
code: DEFNEG
xiao_number: U136
name: 'Definite: negative'
definition: Negative expressions of definiteness (e.g., doubtful, uncertain, questionable).
normalization: words
detection:
- source: xiao_2009
requires:
- usas
usas_code: A7-
- source: usas
requires:
- lemma
- pos
cql: '[lemma={words}]'
words:
- Could'ne
- ambiguously
- ambivalence
- ambivalent
- canna
- contentious
- disputable
- disputed
- dither
- ditherer
- ditherers
- dithering
- dithery
- double-edged
- doubt
- doubted
- doubtedly
- doubter
- doubtful
- doubtfully
- doubting
- doubts
- dubious
- equivocal
- falter
- fanciful
- hesitance
- hesitancy
- hesitant
- hesitantly
- hesitate
- hesitated
- hesitation
- hit-or-miss
- iffy
- ill-defined
- impossibility
- impossible
- impossibly
- impracticable
- improbable
- incoherence
- incoherent
- incoherently
- inconclusive
- indecision
- indecisive
- indefinable
- indefinite
- indescribable
- indeterminable
- indeterminate
- inexpressible
- insecurity
- jam-tomorrow
- limbo
- love-hate
- misgiving
- misgivings
- moot
- questionability
- questionable
- reservation
- teetering
- tentative
- tentatively
- unattainable
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unclear
- unconvinced
- unconvincing
- undefined
- unexplained
- unfeasible
- unlikely
- unreachable
- unsettled
- unsure
- unviable
- vacillate
- vacillated
- waver
- wavered
- wavering
- wishy-washy
- wishy-washying
- wouldnae
- wouldnay
sources:
- xiao_2009
- usas