JJATD_RESIDUAL Descriptive attributive adjectives (residual)
Definition
Descriptive attributive adjectives with no semantic subcategory. MFTE’s JJATDother tracks descriptive (vs classifying) attributive adjectives that don’t fall into specific semantic categories.
Detection Rules
mfte
Approximation of descriptive attributive residual. MFTE distinguishes descriptive from classifying/relational.
cql[pos="JJ"] [pos="NN.*"]
combine: _ & !JJREL & -JJCOLR & -JJSIZE & -JJTIME
Normalization
Per words
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
Notes
MFTE’s JJATDother is part of a three-way split of attributive adjectives into epistemic stance, descriptive, and relational/classifying.