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Abstract:
This paper addresses recent work on the cross-linguistic patterns involving have and need predicates, focusing on the debate surrounding the claim that all languages that lack a tran- sitive have also lack transitive need (Harves & Kayne 2012). In this paper, we move the discussion beyond these surface patterns, first by presenting new syntactic diagnostics to demonstrate that the Bantu language counter-examples to the proposed generalization dis- cussed by Antonov & Jacques (2014) are true counter-examples to the original claim by Harves & Kayne (2012). From this perspective, we evaluate the relevance of these conclu- sions for Harves & Kayne (2012)’s lexical decomposition analysis of need. We conclude that although Bantu languages form a straightforward counter-example to the proposed Harves & Kayne (2012) typology, as Antonov & Jacques (2014) noted, there are in fact some deep similarities between the Bantu patterns and the proposals of Harves & Kayne (2012). In particular, we ...
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Bantu languages; case; predicative possession; transitivity
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/1251741
https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1251741
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