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This chapter discusses modification of the projection of the AP. [CORPUSEXAMPLES] The examples in ( 1) show that modification is only possible with set-denoting adjectives like aardig nice ; relational adjectives such as houten wooden , evaluative adjectives such as drommels , and some residuals including, e.g., modal adjectives such as vermeend alleged are generally not eligible for modification, and will therefore not be discussed in this chapter.

This chapter is organized as follows. Section 3.1 will address modification of the scalar adjectives, followed in Section 3.2 by a discussion of modification of the absolute (non-scalar) adjectives. Section 3.3 addresses the role of the modifiers wel / niet ; it will be shown that besides their use as affirmative/negative markers, these elements can also be used as intensifiers. Section 3.4 continues with a discussion of modification of pronominalized adjectives. The discussion of modification of APs is concluded in Section 3.5 with a number of exceptional cases.