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According to Freeze, there is no overt preposition in (5.56) because the preposition
has been incorporated into Infl, yielding the Spell-out “have” (=is+P).
In fact, Russian seems to be an example of a language which overtly reveals the
parallel structures suggested in (5.55) and (5.56), as shown in (5.57).
(5.57) U
near
menya
me
yest’
is
‘I have a book.’
kniga
book
5.4.2.2 Kayne 1994
As part of a general analysis of possessor constructions such as English “three books
of John’s” and French “la voiture de Jean”, Kayne adopts an analysis in which such
pre-possessor nominals are raised from a position below the possessor, rather than
supposing that the of phrase is a complement of the head nominal. Specifically, he
suggests the following structure for the French expression. (The D/P head is Kayne’s
notation for a “prepositional determiner” which he describes as “comparable to a
prepositional complementizer” (p.102)).
(5.58) la [ D/PP [ NP voiture j ] [de [ IP Jean [I o [e] j ...]]]] (Kayne p103,84)
For Kayne, the English example is essentially the same but the ’s is in I o . Now,
Kayne suggests that ‘have’ constructions are derived from a structure which is similar
to (5.58) but with empty D/P o head and instead of the definite determiner la,
it is the abstract copula BE which takes the D/PP as its complement. Specifically,
he gives the following initial structure for ‘Jean a une voiture.’
(5.59) ...BE[ D/PP [D/P o [ IP Jean [I o [voiture] j ...]]]] (Kayne p102,82)
Here, Jean moves to [Spec,D/PP] and then to [Spec,BE], while D/P o is incorporated
to BE. The overt form of ‘have’ is seen as the Spell-out of D/P o +BE. In this