Feature

Chinese Corpus

Reference Corpus

N

Percent

N

Percent

Total Units

303

236

FORCE-TYPE

N = 303

N = 236

- intensification

62

20.46%

68

28.81%

- quantity

46

15.18%

24

10.17%

FOCUS-TYPE

N = 303

N = 236

- sharpen

3

0.99%

8

3.39%

- soften

1

0.33%

16

6.78%