CLEF
Catalogue of Lexico-grammatical
English Features
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Biber 1988 • Xiao 2009 • Bohmann 2019 • MFTE

A unified, structured, machine-readable catalogue of linguistic features for multi-dimensional register analysis, corpus stylistics, authorship attribution, and any research that relies on counting lexico-grammatical features in English text.

Features › Prepositions › PREP_SEQ

PREP_SEQ Preposition sequences

Bohmann 159

Definition

Sequences of two or more prepositions.

Detection Rules

bohmann_2019

cql[pos="IN"] [pos="IN"]

Requires: pos

Normalization

Per words

Examples

out of

up to

from behind

Sources

  • bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective

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PREP_SEQ Preposition sequences
  • Definition
  • Detection
  • Normalization
  • Examples
  • Sources