[Lingtyp] semantic role of participant that needs something

[Christian Lehmann]

Dear Ion,
>
> (1)This needs more sugar
>
> (so the subject may be just Possessor – in the broader sense discussed 
> by Alex François)
>
> Question: is there a version of /need /which requires x=z=E? Or a 
> version which requires just z=x?
>
> Do you feel a contradiction in (2)?
>
> (2)He needs money, but he doesn’t know it/is not aware of it
>
If this were contradictory, (1) would not be possible.
>
> As for modality, /need /is clearly modal (/is-good/ introduces modality)
>
This is so if evaluation is a kind of modality. There are narrower 
concepts of modality.

Christian

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