QUAN Quantifiers

MFTE QUAN

Definition

Quantifying determiners: all, any, both, each, every, few, many, several, some, etc.

Detection Rules

mfte

MFTE quantifiers. Includes PDT tag, simple word list for common quantifiers, plus context-dependent patterns (a lot/bit of, more_JJ, less_JJ, most of). Many colloquial forms (loads, heaps, zillions). “both” matched regardless of POS (MFTE line 434 uses \\bboth_ with no POS restriction). “a little/lot/bit/tad” matched without requiring “of” (MFTE line 437).

p1 
cql[pos="PDT" & word!="such"]
p2 
cql[word={words} & pos="DT|PDT|JJ|NN|NNS|CD|RB|CC"]
p3 
cql[word="more" & pos="JJR"]
p4 
cql[word="lot|bit|little|tad" & pos!="RB|VB.*"] [word="of"]
p5 
cql[word="a"] [word="lot|bit|little|tad" & pos!="RB|VB.*"]
p6 
cql[word="couple|load"] [word="of"]
combine: p1 | p2 | p3 | p4 | p5 | p6
Word list (25 items)
all any billions both dozens each enough every few half heaps hundreds less loada loads lots many millions much plenty several some thousands wee zillions

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per nouns

Sources

  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

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