Re: shifting usage of "want"

Rene:
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Some kind of dirty shortcut, if you ask me.
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A dirty shortcut indeed!  Wow, what fascinating examples!
You know what would be interesting is some examples that
are ungrammatical, if you can dream some up.

So let's see...  In the examples, you showed, /want/ is followed
by...

(1) An adjectival phrase
(2) A phrase headed by a participle
(3) A prepositional phrase

So here are some things to test:

(4) /want/ followed by a full sentence
(5) /want/ followed by a fully inflected verb phrase without the
subject (e.g., "ate a big lunch" not "eaten a big lunch")
(6) /want/ followed by a noun
(7) /want/ followed by an adverb (all three kinds)

What do you get with these?

-David
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