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object exists in Acehnese. There is some evidence showing
the existence of this phenomenon. But before showing this,
it is important to examine some facts about raising to
object in English, because the idea of raising to object has
its origin in English.
The phenomenon called "raising to object" in English is
only found in a structure with a non-Equi-subject
complement. This rule lifts the subject of such a complement
and places it in the object position of the main clause.
Among the verbs that take these complements are believe.
consider, hear, know, claim, etc. (in Postal's (1974) terms,
"B-verbs"), and want and wish (Postal's "W-verbs"). Raising
to object is governed by these verb classes.
To find out whether or not raising to object exists in
Acehnese, we need to consider sentences with verbs
equivalent to these English verbs. But to avoid any
complication with keumeung and neuk. two verbs which mean
want but are different from it in structure, we will limit
ourselves to the data containing B-verbs. But since the
purpose of this section is only to show that something
similar to raising to object exists in Acehnese, the
examples examined here are limited to very few verbs.
Consider the following examples with the verbs anggap
'to consider.'
113. a) Guru geu-anggap (nyang) geutanyoe salah.
Teacher 3r-consider that weinc guilty
'The teacher considers that we are guilty.'