JJATDother Attitudinal adjectives
Definition
Adjectives expressing emotional attitudes or reactions.
Detection Rules
mfte
Adjective from word list, not followed by “to” or “that”. MFTE (line 1379) excludes these contexts because they are counted under separate to-clause and that-clause features.
cql[word={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [word!="to|that"]
Word list (13 items)
afraid
amazed
concerned
disappointed
encouraged
glad
happy
hopeful
pleased
shocked
surprised
unaware
worried
Normalization
Per nouns
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version