JJTIME Temporal adjectives

Definition

Adjectives related to time or age.

Detection Rules

mfte

MFTE matches surface forms (line 1556). Uses word (not lemma) to avoid matching comparatives like “younger” via lemma “young”.

cql[word={words} & pos="JJ.*"]
Word list (10 items)
annual daily early late new old recent young weekly monthly

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