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

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Friday, April 30, 2004, 5:58
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.