Having 'need' and Needing 'Have'

Stephanie Harves; Richard S. Kayne

doi:10.1162/LING_a_00076

Having 'need' and Needing 'Have'

Stephanie Harves, Richard S. Kayne

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Abstract

A survey of a number of the world's languages reveals that only those languages that have a transitive verb used to express possession (i.e., Have-languages) also have a transitive verb 'need'. No Be-language lacking a transitive verb for possession has a transitive verb 'need'. This generalization suggests a Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002)-style incorporation approach, whereby nominal 'need' incorporates to an unpronounced verbal HAVE, yielding transitive verbal 'need'.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	120-132
Number of pages	13
Journal	Linguistic Inquiry
Volume	43
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/LING_a_00076
State	Published - Dec 2012

Keywords

Be-languages
Have-languages
Incorporation
Possession
Transitive 'need'

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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