ELAB Elaborating conjunctions

Definition

Conjunctions that elaborate or exemplify: for example, for instance, similarly, in other words, etc.

Detection Rules

mfte

MFTE elaboration markers: abbreviations and adverbs introducing exemplification or reformulation.

cql[word={words}]
Word list (12 items)
cf cf. e.g. eg etc etc. i.e. ie likewise namely viz viz.

Requires: word

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Sources

  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

Partially overlaps with Biber’s “conjuncts” (D5).

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