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Example 45-10
masiao
joven
masiao
too
joven
young
too young
Comment:
Note that intensification can also be expressed by reduplication with the linker
na
as in:
joven
na joven
‘very young’.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Llamado 1972
: 79
Language:
Cavite Chabacano
by
Eeva Sippola
cite
Datapoints:
Order of degree word and adjective: Degree word precedes adjective
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