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Fascinating stuff about Russian dative + infinitive constructions.
Wish I knew Russian.
 
Tell me: does anything want to connect this to the phenomenon of
English infinitival sentences (or fragments), which appear with
objective pronouns as subjects?
 
        What, me worry?  (Alfred E. Neuman)
        Him learn Russian?  Forget it!
 
The English context is different, and I don't know that there's the
same sort of silent modal (or even one at all), but the case is perhaps
significant: cf. the preposition in the following:
 
        For me to learn Russian would be a miracle.
 
--Leo Connolly