NN_ALL Total nouns (all)
Definition
Total count of all noun tokens regardless of subtype. MFTE merges all noun POS tags (NN, NNS, NNP, NNPS) into a single _NN tag before counting. This is distinct from Biber’s E16 “other nouns” (NN) which excludes nominalizations and gerunds.
Detection Rules
mfte
All noun POS tags, matching MFTE’s approach of merging NN/NNS/NNP/NNPS. QUAN and QUPR REPLACE quantifier pronouns (nothing, something, etc.). DMA REPLACES “course” in “of course”. TIME REPLACES “yesterday”, “tonight” etc. — all originally NN-tagged by Stanza but consumed before MFTE’s NN count.
cql[pos="NN|NNS|NNP|NNPS"]
combine: _ & !QUAN & !QUPR & !DMA & !TIME
Normalization
Per words
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version