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

Requires: pos

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.