Re: "Free" word order (was Re: Greek definite article (was Re: Addendum: a holy spirit))

Henrik wrote:
> So in my original post, I a) wanted to point out that Qthen|gai has
> no means of doing this (yet), b) was searching for an example of
> object raising.
Not sure if this helps you, but in English such a verb would be
"believe".  One standard test showing this is so is active-passive
synonymy:

  Sargon believed Lugalzaggesi to have ruled many peoples.
  =  Sargon believed many peoples to have been ruled by Lugalzaggesi.

Object control verbs don't act this way:

  Ptolemy persuaded Perdiccas to hand Alexander's body over.
  =/= ?Ptolemy persuaded Alexander's body to be handed over by Perdiccas.

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