JJSIZE Size adjectives

Definition

Adjectives denoting physical size or dimension.

Detection Rules

mfte

MFTE matches surface forms with _J prefix (line 1553). Uses word (not lemma) to avoid matching comparatives like “smaller” via lemma “small”.

cql[word={words} & pos="JJ.*"]
combine: _ & !QUAN
Word list (12 items)
big deep heavy huge long large little short small thin wide narrow

Requires: word, 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