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
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