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When You indicates something which is possessed(mainly abstract thing) is many or big, it is possible for degree adverb to appear before You. Y is an abstract noun in the ‘X hen YouY’ construction. ‘You+ abstract noun’ presents the meaning of property, so the whole construction ‘You+ abstract noun’ is adjectival, therefore it can be modified by degree adverb. What henmodifies is the whole construction ‘YouY’, and Youis a verb in this construction. Youin the ‘You Y Z’ experienced a grammaticalization from verb, and it functions as an indefinite marker before the indefinite subject(Y). Due to its grammaticalization and difficulty in defining its part of speech, we propose that define the part of speech of Youin the ‘YouY Z’ construction as auxiliary word.
