Re: THEORY nouns and cases (was: Verbs derived from noun cases)

takatunu wrote:
> OK, so yes: There is something to bicker about. :) Both of us seem to have a
> completely different view about this all: To me "pai ga tabetai" is the only
> legal form although "pai wo tabetai" is heard and I understand it as making
> the whole phrase [pai_wo_taberu] a desiderative--but I don't share your
> experience of its being more common.
Well, whether it's more common or not, it *does* occur, and my grammar
books say both are legal.  In fact, one of them only gives a single
example of -tai with a transitive verb, and that one uses _wo_.

And, also, I'm fairly sure that I have heard the _wo_ form more often
than _ga_, but frequency isn't the point - that it occurs and is legal
is the point.