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

Quoting Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:

> Philippe wrote:
>
> "I cannot see why I should say "him-ACC the cake-DAT".
>
> You don't have to. Unless you want a casemarking language like Latin. 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.
Nope. "Cake" is the _direct_ object of "to eat", while "him" is the direct
object of "want". In a language which allows English-style accusative-and-
infinite constructions, you'd expect "cake" to carry accusative marking.

                                              Andreas