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Table 1 Raw frequency of result adverbials from the COHA (1810–1960)

From: The factualization of ‘I suppose’ in American English: a corpus based study of the subjectification of epistemic predicates toward factuality

 

1810

1820

1830

1840

1850

1860

1870

1880

1890

1990

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

really

   

1

3

2

3

6

8

1

12

14

15

12

18

13

hardly

 

1

2

1

4

2

7

3

3

3

3

 

1

   

actually

    

1

 

1

  

1

2

3

4

3

4

4

certainly

    

1

1

2

4

 

1

1

    

1

indeed

     

2

3

1

2

    

1

  

sure

     

1

     

1

 

1

1

 

exactly

    

1

1

 

1

 

2

1

2

2

 

1

2