These facts mitigate strongly against a Transform approach to the dative alternation, like that of , and point towards an Alternative Projection approach, similar in many respects to that of . Second, the P HAVE prepositional element is identified with the prepositional component of verbal have , treated in the literature by . An exploration of how syntactic and semantic selectional restrictions can be handled in a Late Lexical Insertion framework like Distributed Morphology. An overview of the positions of Distributed Morphology, treating lexical insertion, word-internal structure, the theoretical status of paradigms and Encyclopedic knowledge, morphological processes, etc. A survey and treatment of different types of clausal complements to have , arguing that the status of the whole have construction with respect to eventiveness depends upon the status of its complement.
Complements headed by the passive participle are ambiguous.
A treatment of the causative and experiencer readings of the verb have in English that draws heavily on evidence from logophoric reflexives and Reinhart and Reuland's Reflexivity theory of binding. A more elaborated presentation of this thesis is found in the ms. Differences in interpretation arise from context. It is argued that the syntactic properties of nominative objects in Icelandic demonstrate that there is no necessary connection between structural nominative case and finite Tense. Two of these properties are of particular interest.