CLEF
Catalogue of Lexico-grammatical
English Features
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Biber 1988 • Xiao 2009 • Bohmann 2019 • MFTE

A unified, structured, machine-readable catalogue of linguistic features for multi-dimensional register analysis, corpus stylistics, authorship attribution, and any research that relies on counting lexico-grammatical features in English text.

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JJR Comparative adjective forms

Bohmann 150

Definition

Comparative adjectives (both inflected -er and periphrastic more + Adj)

Detection Rules

bohmann_2019

cql[pos="JJR"]

Requires: pos

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective

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JJR Comparative adjective forms
  • Definition
  • Detection
  • Normalization
  • Sources