Re: Help: Zhyler ECM/Raising Verbs (Longish)

In a message dated 4/4/2004 3:48:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
treborjung@FREE.FR writes:

>But in
>the sentence "I want him to eat the cake", "I" is the subject, "him" is the
>direct object, and "cake" is the indirect object.
I seem to recall that there are languages that do it the other way around,
and have "him" in the dative and "cake" in the accusative.

Ah, I've just found it in Vol III of Timothy Shopen's _Language Typology and
Syntactic Desciription_.  Bernard Comrie's chapter on causatives etc. glosses
a Turkish sentence as follows (accent marks omitted.  Sorry):

Disci mektub-u mudur-e imzala-t-ti
Dentist letter-DO director-IO sign-CAUSE-PAST
The dentist made the director sign the letter.

DO = direct object
IO = indirect object.

(This is with "make" rather than "want," but they may work similarly in some
languages.)

Doug