RBINTNS Intensifiers (non-specific degree)
Definition
Intensifiers expressing non-specific degree.
Detection Rules
xiao_2009
usas
cql[lemma={words}]
Word list (90 items)
aboot
abundant
abundantly
achingly
amply
any
appreciably
awful
awfully
bitterly
bloody
blooming
chock
considerably
damn
damned
dashed
dead
dearly
decidedly
deeply
desperately
devastatingly
doubly
dreadfully
drop-dead
earnestly
eminently
enormously
exceedingly
exceptionally
excruciating
excruciatingly
extremely
fabulously
fantastically
far
fearfully
fiendishly
fiercely
frightfully
greatly
grossly
heartily
heavily
helluva
highly
horrendously
hugely
immensely
increasingly
incredibly
indeed
intensely
jolly
mad
majorly
mightily
mighty
more
much
outrageously
outstandingly
overly
particularly
phenomenally
plain
profoundly
real
really
remarkably
ridiculously
seriously
singularly
strongly
terrifically
that
this
tremendously
ultra
unbelievably
untold
unutterably
vastly
very
way
whacking
wildly
woefully
wonderfully
Normalization
Per words
Sources
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
- usas — Rayson, Paul; Archer, Dawn; Piao, Scott; McEnery, Tony (2004) : The UCREL Semantic Analysis System