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believe, know, say, think, prove, usac, sss, etc. A
sentence, such as Bill was believed to have seen Sallv in
the hall, is assumed to have been derived from Thev believed
that Bill saw Sallv in the hall by raising to object (They
believed Bill fto have seen Sallv in the halll) followed by
passive in the higher clause.
The existence of raising to object in Acehnese has
become a topic of controversy. The oldest papers that
treated Acehnese as a language that has raising to object
are Lawler (1975a) and (1975b). Later, in some sections of
Asyik (1982a), the analysis was also based on the assumption
that raising to object existed in Acehnese. The rejection of
the assertion that raising to object existed in Acehnese
first appeared in Durie (1982). It was repeated and
clarified further in Durie (1985: 244-258).
The following is Durie's first sentence that is used to
argue that there is no raising to object in Acehnese.
109. Kah ku-keumeung poh le kee. (9-95)
Youy 1-will beat by I
' I will beat you.'
kah is the object of the complement. If we return this
object into the complement, the sentence is either (110) or
(111) .
110. Ku-keumeung poh kah le kee.
1-will beat youy by I
' I will beat you.'