CLEF
Catalogue of Lexico-grammatical
English Features
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Biber 1988 • Xiao 2009 • Bohmann 2019 • MFTE

A unified, structured, machine-readable catalogue of linguistic features for multi-dimensional register analysis, corpus stylistics, authorship attribution, and any research that relies on counting lexico-grammatical features in English text.

Features › Adverbs › SORT_OF_N

SORT_OF_N Sort of + N

Bohmann 124

Definition

Vagueness marker sort of before nouns

Detection Rules

bohmann_2019

regex\bsort of\b

Requires: word

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective
  • grieve_2016 — Grieve, Jack (2016) : Regional Variation in Written American English

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SORT_OF_N Sort of + N
  • Definition
  • Detection
  • Normalization
  • Sources