THSC That subordinate clauses
Definition
Subordinate clauses introduced by “that” (non-relative), as verb complements (e.g., “I know that he left”).
Detection Rules
That as subordinator (not demonstrative or relative). Refines IN.
cql[word="that" & pos="IN"]
pybiber
pybiber uses UPOS: preceding VERB + “that” as SCONJ. This is narrower than using fine-grained IN because some “that”-IN tokens have UPOS=ADP (not SCONJ).
cql[upos="VERB"] [word="that" & upos="SCONJ"]
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
Did you know that the calendar we use today was started by Julius Caesar?
Source: le_foll_2024
She resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid.
Source: le_foll_2024
Sources
- biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
- pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes