Re: shifting usage of "want"

David Peterson wrote:
>Rene:
><<
>(7a) (unattested)
>John ran the race best because most quickly.
>
>But this would be camouflaged in Dutch because adverbs like these have
>the same form as adjectives. I've not been able to find any examples.
>
>Could you give examples of the other two kinds of adverbs used in this
>construction? I can't imagine any other form to be grammatical.
> >>
>
>Let's see...
>
>(7b) John was fired by his boss because late.
>(7c) John couldn't hear Mary because far away.
>
>Oh, and this could be interesting:
>
>Rene:
><<
>Hier scoorde ik pluspunten want vrouw.
>I scored extra points here because woman.
> >>
>
>What controls (or c-commands, if we want to talk about GB)
>the thing after /want/?  So...
>
>(8) Sally hated Susie because woman.
>
>I.e., "Sally hated Susie, because she (Sally) is a woman", or is it
>"Sally hated Susie, because she (Susie) is a woman"?
>
>Let's see what other things we can do with islands...
>
>(9) Sally told Susie to congratulate Stacy because married.
>
>Can any of the three of them have just gotten married?
>
>I'm not good enough at these...  Anyone taking a syntax class
>right now?
>
No, but I still remember of bit of early Chomsky/Lakoff/McCawley.... IIRC
René's examples all involve deletion of _same subject_. Yours are ambiguous
(and I bet will be difficult for René) because of the multiple subjects.

I've written multiple pages on a similar problem in Prevli: the verb /semi/
can mean 'to say' or can be used as an indirect order, 'to tell (s.o. to do
s.t.). Gets very gnarly the more clauses you pile up: "she says she thinks
she told her to feed her baby". :-)))))