JJEPSTother Epistemic adjectives

Definition

Adjectives expressing certainty, likelihood, or knowledge states.

Detection Rules

mfte

MFTE only counts epistemic adjectives that survived to JJAT/JJPR (line 1382). “right” in “all right” and after punctuation is consumed by DMA first (lines 453-455). Separate patterns handle: (1) all epistemic words except right/true, (2) right/true only when NOT preceded by “all” or punctuation/DMA.

p1 
cql[word={words} & pos="JJ.*"]
p2 
cql[word!="[Aa]ll|[Oo]k.*" & pos!="\\W|\\.|,|``|UH"] [word="[Rr]ight|[Tt]rue" & pos="JJ.*"]
combine: p1 | p2
Word list (19 items)
apparent certain clear confident convinced correct doubtful evident false impossible inevitable likely obvious positive possible probable sure unlikely well-known

Requires: word, pos

cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"]
Word list (21 items)
apparent certain clear confident convinced correct evident false impossible inevitable obvious positive right sure true well-known doubtful likely possible probable unlikely

Requires: lemma, pos

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

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