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This paper attempts to account for conflation and derivation of light verb complex predicates(LVCP), especially the `have' complex predicate in the Minimalism (Chomsky 1995, 2000) and suggests that this type of light verb shows somewhat different properties from other light verbs like the ones in traditional grammar and Minimalism perspective, respectively. Throughout the paper I show that the light verb `have' also has a specific and semantic signature like other verbs, which is an important clue for the grammaticality of the complex predicate and that the tension between semantic and syntactic properties of these predicates is dissolved. Based on the study in Kim(2004), LVCP does not need a conflation just for a p-signature in the lexicon because the light verb `have' is neither a phonological null nor a phonologically defective affix. I suggest that a semantic signature of LVCP is conflated with that of the related complement at the lexicon, namely, both a syntactic label and a phonological signature of LVCP are not conflated at the lexicon, respectively.