Dealing with non-agentive transitives, Hasegawa (2001, in press) proposes a system where the small v category is considered to have two independently specified features, [±Object Case][±External Role]. This paper is a sequel to it and proposes an analysis of the possessor raising construction (PRC), where the subject is interpreted as a possessor of the object, syntactically deriving the particular reading; namely 'experiences', on the human subject of PRC. It will he shown that PRC is observed not only in transitives but also in certain types of causatives, -(s)ase in Japanese and have and get in English and that Hasegawa's system accounts for both transitive PRCs and causative PRCs in a unified way. The paper explores differences and similarities between causatives, experiences causatives, and experiences passives in both Japanese and English.
The Possessor Raising Construction : Transitivization, Causative, and Experiencer
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