LOGOPHORS, VARIABLE BINDING AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HAVE

The unavailability of the experiencer reading of English have when its subject is coindexed with a logophor in the complement is shown to be the result of a particular licensing condition on the experiencer and locative readings of have. The experiencer or location subject of hav e must bind a [+R] variable in its complement. Logophors, while variab les, are not [+R] in the binding theory as presented in Reinhart and R euland (1993); hence the experiencer or location reading is not licens ed. More broadly, the result supports the proposals of Ritter and Rose n (1997) and Belvin (1993, 1996) that have is a predicate whose interp retation depends upon the nature of and relations between its argument s.