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Araucaria's avatar

My faourite bit of data on this topic is that adjectives can be iterated, but determinatives can't: 'bule, blue eyes', 'many, many times' but not *'the, the apple'!

Anyone intererested in this topic might want to have a look at Mariangela Spinillo's brilliant and very readable UCL thesis: "Reconceptualising the English determiner class". Available here: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10101595/1/out.pdf

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Bas Aarts - English Grammar's avatar

Good point!

I referenced Mariangela's thesis in my other post about determinatives: https://basaarts.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-is-a-determiner

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