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> 首都のワシントンでは、移民が **多く** 働いているレストランなどがたくさん休みになりました。 In the capital --
> Washington -- many restaurants where immigrants work took a break.

I'm not sure how to parse 移民が **多く** 働いているレストラン.

Is 多く modifying 働く adverbially: "restaurants where immigrants work a lot".

Or is it two separate clauses i.e. 移民が多くて働いているレストラン: "In washington there are
a lot of immigrants, and the restaurants where they work ..."
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parsing quantifiers
How to parse 移民が多く働いているレストラン
移民が多く働いているレストラン can be rephrased as 多くの移民が働いているレストラン. That is to say, it means
"Restaurants where many immigrants work".
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This 多く働く only means "many people work", not "work a lot." People usually
don't say 多く働く to mean "work a lot", so it's not even ambiguous. Numbers can
be expressed adverbially in Japanese. Just as you can say 移民が5人働く or りんごが5個ある,
you can say 移民が多く働く or りんごがいっぱいある. It's far more common than English "in
abundance," etc.

If it were 移民がたくさん働く, it's theoretically ambiguous since it can also safely
mean "work a lot," but the meaning is clear fro the context, anyway.

一生懸命働く, 頑張って働く, etc., only mean "work hard".
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