RATT Attitudinal adverbs
Definition
Adverbs expressing speaker attitude or evaluation.
Detection Rules
mfte
cql[lemma={words} & pos="RB.*"]
Word list (13 items)
amazingly
astonishingly
conveniently
curiously
hopefully
fortunately
importantly
ironically
rightly
sadly
surprisingly
unfortunately
even worse
Normalization
Per words
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