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 › Derivational morphology › SUFF_ICAN

SUFF_ICAN Suffix -ican

Bohmann 215 Bohmann 217

Definition

Words ending in -ican(s).

Detection Rules

regexicans?$

Requires: word

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective

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SUFF_ICAN Suffix -ican
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