RBINTNS Intensifiers (non-specific degree)

Definition

Intensifiers expressing non-specific degree.

Detection Rules

xiao_2009

Requires: usas

USAS code: A13.3

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

Requires: lemma, pos

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