抄録
In this paper, I will argue that contain and other related verbs as used in a certain type of construction have a different light verb than that which is associated with other transitive constructions. A proposal is made that in that construction, the light verb assigns structural partitive Case to the object. It is also shown that the subject and the complement of the verb are in a certain whole-part relation under which it is required that the former c-command the latter, and that this requirement makes it impossible for the construction to undergo passivization.
