Maybe I'll bring back rainbows.
The sentence I posted is an example of exceptional case marking because the subject of the dependent clause is an object pronoun.
This is caused by the verb
need, even though the object pronoun
her is not the direct object of the verb need, as it IS in the example below:
I need her.
Not all English verbs are ECM verbs, as we can also see below, where the subject of the dependent clause is the subject pronoun
she (not the object pronoun her):
I suggest that she call me.
So in the original example
I need her to call me, the case marking of she-->her, caused by the ECM verb
need, is exceptional because even though she is not the object of the verb need, the object pronoun
her is still used.
- an Anglo