I don't know. In the googling I've done since, there are a lot of linguistics papers talking about infinitival clauses having subjects.
And certainly "me" doesn't fall easily into any of the "high school grammar textbook" types of objects. The verbal "to go" itself (or, more probably, the verbal clause) seems to be much closer to being a direct object (I'm not being desired directly), and "me" is left in a very strange position. It's an object in the sense that's in an object case, of course, but I still don't have a satisfactory understanding of why.
As far as I can tell, "want" is being used as an Exceptional Case Marking verb, whatever that means.
The supposed language change seems to be the consequence of rampant hypercorrection.
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Date: 2007-06-29 10:33 am (UTC)And certainly "me" doesn't fall easily into any of the "high school grammar textbook" types of objects. The verbal "to go" itself (or, more probably, the verbal clause) seems to be much closer to being a direct object (I'm not being desired directly), and "me" is left in a very strange position. It's an object in the sense that's in an object case, of course, but I still don't have a satisfactory understanding of why.
As far as I can tell, "want" is being used as an Exceptional Case Marking verb, whatever that means.
The supposed language change seems to be the consequence of rampant hypercorrection.