Not so high he case of causee in South Asian Languages (Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi & Manipuri) Richa Srishti Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore he status of the causee argument in Hindi and other South Asian Languages has been contentious in recent literature as it takes instrumental/ablative Case marker and hence, seems comparable to an instrumental/ablative adjunct (-se in Hindi, athi in Kashmiri, tõ: in Punjabi, and -n∂ in Manipuri). he question is whether the instrumental/ablative Case marker appearing on the causee and on an instrumental adjunct should only receive an analysis of accidental homophony or a more principled analysis between the two is possible? he paper here argues that such an analysis is certainly possible. he instrumental/ablative is an adjunct and in causatives, the causee argument is merged to the Voice head as its speciier (the position involving -se/athi/tõ:/n∂ being valued as a structural, rather than a lexical, Case). It is further argued that though, this position is υP-external, i.e. ‘high’ but not ‘high’ enough to count as the subject. Keywords: causative alternation; voice; υP-external; argument/adjunct . Introduction he present paper scrutinizes the status of causee in Hindi and other three South Asian languages – Kashmiri, Punjabi and Manipuri. Its marking by the instru- mental/ablative marker has led to some analyses of the causee as an adjunct. Here it is illustrated that the causee in Hindi and in other three languages too is not an adjunct but an argument that occupies a subject-like position outside the υP by Spell-out, merged in the Speciier of VoiceP. he paper is organized in ive sections. he irst section provides a brief description of the causative alternation phenomenon in Hindi and other languages. he second section examines the status of causee. he third section analyses the status of instrumental/ablative marked causee vs. pure instruments. he fourth section argues for a Voice analysis of the causative alternation. he ith and last section concludes the paper with inal remarks on the analysis.