RNONFACT Non-factive adverbs
Definition
Adverbs expressing manner of assertion without asserting truth.
Detection Rules
mfte
MFTE FREQ (line 1229) REPLACES usually/generally/etc. before RNONFACT runs, so frequency adverbs are not available.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="RB.*"]
combine: _ & !FREQ
Word list (11 items)
confidentially
frankly
generally
honestly
mainly
technically
truthfully
typically
reportedly
primarily
usually
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