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have like a subject in other constructions. This syntactic movitation permitted
adherence to the Mapping Hypothesis, which says that an indefinite which is subject
to existential closure must be interpreted within the verb phrase (which I take
to be vP). The indefiniteness of the associate is in line with the definiteness effect
seen in existential constructions cross-linguistically. I have analyzed CQ possessive
sentences, which seem to have a specific/definite DP (with an explicit prenominal
possessor) in an existential construction, by suggesting that the possessor raises out
of its DP at LF, in parallel to overt movement which has been postulated in English
and French by Kayne [1994] and in Hungarian by Szabolcsi [1994].