OTHADVSUB Other adverbial subordinators
Definition
Adverbial subordinators not covered by causal, conditional, or concessive categories (e.g., since, while, until, as).
Detection Rules
Other adverbial subordinators (word list with POS filter).
cql[word={words} & pos="IN"]
Word list (6 items)
since
while
whilst
whereas
whereby
as
pybiber
SCONJ/mark tokens excluding words already counted in other features (causal, conditional, concessive, that-clauses).
cql[pos="IN" & dep="mark" & word!="because|if|unless|though|although|tho|that"]
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Sources
- biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
- pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
- grieve_2023 — Grieve, Jack (2023) : Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis
- bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective
Notes
MFTE has CUZ, COND, CONC for specific types but not a residual “other” category.