The iconicity of infinitival complementation in Present - day English causatives
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(3) Sunnedei aras ure drihten from deðe to liue. and makede arisen mid him alle þa þet him efden er ihersumed. (HM1 IR HOM LAMB14 141) ‘On Sunday Our Lord arose from death to life. And he made arise with him all those who had obeyed him.’ (4) lo þe sweoke hu he walde makien hire aleast to leapen in to prude. (HM1 IR RELT ANCR 121) ‘Lo the traitor, how he wanted to make her at last jump into pride.’
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