transitivity, locative prefixes & the pronomin. argument hypothesis.

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Koontz John E wrote:
> Whether a verb with a locative can govern a nominal argument, and which
> argument this would be functionally, or whether ditransitives can govern
> two arguments, would also be worth considering, though I suspect they
> would be less diagnostic.  Compare cases like dhiNge' 'to lack', which
> agrees with the lacker using stative (object) pronominals, but still
> permits a nominal reference to the lacked.

My point is that I don't think the verb can agree pronominally with the
thing lacked.  I don't know how you would say something like 'Since I
don't have you, my life isn't worth living.' I expect there's a paraphrase
that avoids the issue.