RFACT Factive adverbs

MFTE RFACT

Definition

Adverbs asserting factual certainty.

Detection Rules

mfte

MFTE FREQ (line 1229) REPLACES always/usually/etc. before RFACT runs (line 1626). FREQ excludes apply to single-word adverbs only. Multi-word expressions (of course, in fact, without/no doubt) match regardless of tag (MFTE lines 1627-1629).

p1 
cql[lemma={words_adverbs} & pos="RB.*"]
p2 
cql[word="[Oo]f"] [word="[Cc]ourse"]
p3 
cql[word="[Ii]n"] [word="[Ff]act"]
p4 
cql[word="[Ww]ithout|[Nn]o"] [word="[Dd]oubt"]
combine: (p1 | p2 | p3 | p4) & !FREQ
Words: adverbs (10 items)
actually always certainly definitely indeed inevitably never obviously really undoubtedly

Requires: word, lemma, pos

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

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