present a uniform syntactic analysis for the crosslinguistically well attested similarities between locative and possessive sentences, in which possessive 'HAVE' is transformationally derived by incorporating a dative-benefactive or locative-comitative preposition into an existential copular verb 'BE'. Here we focus on possessive constructions in Coptic Egyptian, which provide first-hand evidence for the 'HAVE'/'BE' alteration. The Coptic evidence also shows that clausal possession cannot fully be accounted for by a mechanical application of the preposition incorporation analysis.

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)