JJEPSTother YAML source
code: JJEPSTother
name: Epistemic adjectives
definition: Adjectives expressing certainty, likelihood, or knowledge states.
normalization: nouns
detection:
- source: mfte
requires:
- word
- pos
parts:
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"
words:
- apparent
- certain
- clear
- confident
- convinced
- correct
- doubtful
- evident
- "false"
- impossible
- inevitable
- likely
- obvious
- positive
- possible
- probable
- sure
- unlikely
- well-known
description: >-
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.
- requires:
- lemma
- pos
cql: '[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"]'
words:
- apparent
- certain
- clear
- confident
- convinced
- correct
- evident
- "false"
- impossible
- inevitable
- obvious
- positive
- right
- sure
- "true"
- well-known
- doubtful
- likely
- possible
- probable
- unlikely
sources:
- biber_2006
- mfte