1 I’m done my homework- Case assignment in a stative passive * Josef Fruehwald Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh Neil Myler CAS Linguistics Program, Department of Romance Studies, Boston University Abstract We present an analysis of an understudied construction found in Philadelphia and Canadian English, and also in certain Vermont varieties. In this construction, the participle of certain verbs can appear along with a form of the verb be and a DP complement, producing strings like I’m done my homework, I’m finished my fries, and (in Vermont) I’m started the project. We show that the participle in the construction is an adjectival passive, not a perfect construction. We further argue that the internal argument DP in the construction is receiving Case from the adjectival head a, similar to what happens in all English dialects with the adjective worth, and that the internal argument is interpreted via a mechanism of complement coercion. The microparametric variation we find across English dialects with respect to the availability of this construction is accounted for by variation in the selectional restrictions on the a head. Keywords: adjective, Canadian English, Case assignment, English dialect syntax, microvariation, Philadelphia English, stative passive, Vermont English 1. Introduction We present an analysis of an underdescribed construction common to Canadian, Philadelphian, and Vermont English, exemplified in (1). (1) I’m {done/finished} my homework. This construction appears to involve an instance of the copula/passive auxiliary be, a participial form of finish or do (or even start for some Vermont speakers), and a DP complement receiving accusative case. While fully productive and non-idiomatic in dialects that allow it (see Yerastov (2008) for a description and discussion of its geographical distribution), this construction is ungrammatical in most dialects of British * The authors would like to thank the audience at the 37 th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, and many other individuals for their helpful comments and (in some cases) data. We are particularly grateful to Lucas Champollion, James Collins, David Embick, Kelly Jackson, Elyse Jamieson, Shannon Fitzgerald, Richard Kayne, Hilda Koopman, Bradley Larson, Julie Legate, Alec Marantz, Kelsey Rowe, Gillian Sankoff, Anna Szabolcsi, Meredith Tamminga, Gary Thoms, Jim Wood, and Yuri Yerastov. The ususal disclaimers apply.