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Abstract

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the Afrikaans degree modifier ‘very/much/many’. appears to be a single lexical item with a wide distribution in terms of the categories of gradable predicate with which it can combine. However, the paper shows that two syntactically distinct instances of should be distinguished. These instances of portion out the modification of different grammatical categories between them: one, a head, exclusively modifies gradable adjectives, and the other, an adjunct, modifies the remaining categories of gradable predicate.

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