Robyn Berghoff, R. Nouwen, Lisa Bylinina, Yaron McNabb
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Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the Afrikaans degree modifier baie ‘very/much/many’.
Baie 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 baie
should be distinguished. These instances of baie 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.
期刊介绍：
Linguistic Variation is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the study of linguistic variation. It seeks to investigate to what extent the study of linguistic variation can shed light on the broader issue of language-particular versus language-universal properties, on the interaction between what is fixed and necessary on the one hand and what is variable and contingent on the other. This enterprise involves properly defining and delineating the notion of linguistic variation by identifying loci of variation. What are the variable properties of natural language and what is its invariant core?
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