English Have Causatives and the Selectional Variation between Have and Make
- 한국영어학학회
- 영어학연구
- 영어학연구 제20권 1호
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2014.0469 - 91 (22 pages)
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This study investigates the structure of English periphrastic causatives formed with have in comparison with its make counterpart. Evaluating the interrelations between agent-oriented adverbs and agency (Pylkkänen 2002; 2008, Kim 2012), I show that agent-oriented adverbs do not serve as a rigorous test for detecting the structural unit of VoiceP. I propose that causative have must select for verbal structures that correspond to VoiceP, with supporting evidence from ellipsis and the possibility to embed a passive. In this sense, have causatives behave in parallel with make causatives, which are attested to be Voice-selecting (Tubino Blanco 2011). The two causatives, however, differ in two respects. First, causative have is strictly Voice-selecting, unlike causative make. Second, the two causatives differ in the type of the verbalizer of the matrix clause - have is associated with vBEJ make with vCAUS.
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Previous Analyses of English Have Causatives
3. Proposal: English Have Causatives as Voice-selecting
4. Evaluating the 'On Purpose' Diagnostic
5. Voice, Ellipsis, and Have Causatives
6. Make and Have Causatives as Voice-selecting
7. Variation between Have and Make Causatives
8. Conclusions
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