A hit list is a list that someone makes of people they intend to have killed.
(collinsdictionary.com)
Is "to have killed" a perfect infinitive or a non-finite clause expressing causation in the sentence above?
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I think it is the latter.
Right, grammatically it is ambiguous, but from the overall sense of it we can tell that "have" is causative.
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Right, grammatically it is ambiguous, but from the overall sense of it we can tell that "have" is causative.