ThJLIK That-clause after likelihood adjective

Definition

That complement clause preceded by a likelihood adjective.

Detection Rules

Adjective from stance list followed by that-complement.

cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [word="that" & pos="IN"]
Word list (5 items)
doubtful likely possible probable unlikely

Requires: word, lemma, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

likely that

possible that

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

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