English Have Causatives and the Selectional Variation between Have and Make

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.