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Very<br />
Figure out the semantic type of very and try to give a lexical<br />
semantics for it. For instance, you can think of a very intelligent<br />
student as intelligent compared to the intelligent students.<br />
• Type: <br />
• Idea: very is an adjective-duplicater.<br />
• Adjective doubling is common in many languages<br />
Lit:<br />
the mean mean dog =<br />
‘the very mean dog’<br />
03.06.20<strong>08</strong> Slides based on semantics textbook from I. Heim & A. Kratzer<br />
and lecture notes from M. Krifka<br />
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