Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an ...

Raising Juveniles This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a ‘decentralized’ scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a ‘hierarchical’ scheme, in which the parents can enforce a particular level of schooling by employing a moni...