RFACT YAML source
code: RFACT
mfte_code: RFACT
name: Factive adverbs
definition: Adverbs asserting factual certainty.
normalization: words
detection:
- source: mfte
requires:
- word
- lemma
- pos
words:
adverbs:
- actually
- always
- certainly
- definitely
- indeed
- inevitably
- never
- obviously
- really
- undoubtedly
parts:
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"
description: >-
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).
sources:
- biber_2006
- mfte