Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Causative and Perception Verbs - Bare Infinitives
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| Author: | Marija Lepeza | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
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| Query: |
Why do we assume that causative and perception verbs with bare infinitives do not have clauses as complements, but verb phrases? What is the evidence? What would be the status of the NP preceding the bare infinitive? E.g. 1) We made them clean the floor. 2) I saw her buy the flowers. |
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| LL Issue: | 24.1032 | |
| Date posted: | 27-Feb-2013 | |
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