ThNFCT That-relative after factive noun

Definition

That relative clause preceded by a factive noun.

Detection Rules

Noun from stance list followed by that-relative.

cql[lemma={words} & pos="NN.*"] [word="that" & pos="WDT"]
Word list (24 items)
assertion assertions conclusion conclusions conviction convictions discoveries discovery doubt doubts fact facts knowledge knowledges observation observations principle principles realization realizations result results statement statements

Requires: word, lemma, pos

Normalization

Per nouns

Examples

the fact that

conclusion 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