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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> Consider the following examples:
>
> My wife wants to have me killed.
> He had his head cut off.
> We had the fire extinguished before the firemen arrived.
>
> Piotr
I think the above sentences have a causative meaning.
Bu what is the purpose for which the sentences are shown here?
Besdies, could the construction of these sentences have also evolved
from the possessive construction? If so, it seems that the
construction corresponds to the word order of the original
construction.
Ray