intensifiers

The data is from Desagulier (2014). The data set was compiled to see how 23 English intensifiers cluster on the basis of their most associated adjectives. For each of the 23 adverbs, I first extracted all adjectival collocates from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies 2008–2012), amounting to 432 adjective types and 316,159 co-occurrence tokens. Then, I conducted a collexeme analysis for each of the 23 degree modifiers. To reduce the data set to manageable proportions, the 35 most attracted adjectives were selected on the basis of their respective collostruction strengths, yielding a 23-by-432 contingency table containing the frequency of adverb-adjective pair types.

Desagulier, Guillaume. 2014. Visualizing distances in a set of near synonyms: rather, quite, fairly, and pretty.. Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, John Benjamins, pp.145-178, 2014, 9789027223975. ⟨10.1075/hcp.43.06des⟩. ⟨halshs-00731035v1⟩
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