Timeline for A seemingly odd usage of the が particle
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| Sep 29 at 23:00 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | It's easier if you think of this 買って as a modifier that attaches directly to ほしい. | |
| Sep 29 at 9:42 | comment | added | burcela | So I can parse it as follows: 本が/買って/ほしい, is that correct? And using を is more action-centered rather than object-centered? I also wonder if the が/を is the disambiguator whether a noun pairs with ほしい or てほしい. Because I'm confident that を買ってほしい is natural and fairly common use, maybe just more action-centered, since it involves を rather than が. | |
| Sep 28 at 23:12 | history | answered | Karl Knechtel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |