Re: Causative/Benefactive Interaction

In a message dated 12/12/2007 3:26:19 PM Central Standard Time,
eldin_raigmore@YAHOO.COM writes:


> Is there a semantic difference between:
>
> "(Abe made Bob do something) for Charlie"
>
> and
>
> "Abe made (Bob do something for Charlie)."
>
> ?
>
> In other words does it matter enough, whether it was Bob's doing something
> that benefitted Charlie, or Abe making it happen that benefitted Charlie,
> for
> any language's speakers to have a way, in their language, to mark the
> difference?
>
To paraphrase: Did Abe do it for Charlie, or did Abe make Bob do it for
Charlie?
Looks like a big difference to me, although most of the time it might be the
same thing.

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