Ingestive Verbs, Causatives, and Object Symmetry in Lubukusu

Abstract

Various languages allowinstances of external possession – possessive encodingwith- out a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battle- ground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument in support of posses- sor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves froma possessum-DP-internal position to an a-thematic A-positionwithin vP. Like raising to subject, thismovement is obligatory and does not result in the assign- ment of a newtheta-role to themoving element.