Dear teacher,
Applied Digital's distributors overseas have achieved some highly publicized, if limited, successes.
Q : The "if" could be replaced with "although", couldn't it?
and the clause "if (it is) limited" modifies "publicized". Right?
All the best,
if limited
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Yes and no: 'if' here does mean 'although' but the clause that, as such, it introduces, being an elliptical concessive, functions as an adverbial disjunct to the relative matrix clause.
In short, it means: '...have achieved some successes that have been highly publicized ALTHOUGH THEY ARE/HAVE BEEN LIMITED.
In short, it means: '...have achieved some successes that have been highly publicized ALTHOUGH THEY ARE/HAVE BEEN LIMITED.