I Need Out Because He Wants in the House: the Subject Pronoun in Need and Want Phrasal Constructions.

Abstract

In this project, which is part of a larger project examining syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors affecting want + prepositional adverb/phrase and need + prepositional adverb/phrase, we explore the role that one syntactic factor, namely subject type, plays in the widespread distribution of these constructions in written sources.