The Old English <i>Have</i>-Perfect and Its Congeners

Acosta, Diego de

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“… 3. In an alternative account, de Acosta (2013) argues that the link between possession and OE have + past participle construction is only indirect, on the grounds that OE habban was used to express not only possession, but more generally relations of pertaining, befalling, etc. In his view, it is these broad semantic relations that paved the way for the emergence of the have -perfect. …”

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Developments in the Use of the English Present Perfect

Yao

2014

Journal of English Linguistics

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This article examines developments in the use of the present perfect (PP) with the auxiliary have in standard British and American English from 1750 to the present day, drawing data from the drama section of A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER). Multivariate analyses were conducted to examine changes in the type of linguistic contexts that favor the choice of the construction over its main competitor, the simple past tense. A number of significant changes were identified, including a stronger tendency for the have-PP to occur in temporally specified and negative contexts, and to become less favored by transitive verbs and events with direct results (e.g., break, kill, lose, arrive). The findings are interpreted as an indication of a slow functional reconfiguration that contours the construction’s continued grammaticalization. It is suggested that there has been, since the Late Modern English period, a gradual shift in the nature of the construction’s “current relevance,” from the persistence of the present result of a past event to the situational constitution of the “extended-now” interval.

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Developments in the Use of the English Present Perfect

Yao

2014

Journal of English Linguistics

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The Perfect

Grønn¹,

Stechow²

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics

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The analytic perfect is found in Germanic and Romance languages, as well as in a couple of Slavic languages. Based on data from parallel corpora, we address the role of the perfect between tense and aspect, and show how its meaning is composed from aspectual properties of the participle and the tense marking on the auxiliary. Since the perfect is concerned with temporal relations, we focus on the interaction of the construction with temporal adverbials.

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She has a stadium named after her

Johannsen¹

2022

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In English, sequences consisting of the verb have, a noun phrase and a past participle vary in meaning. This meaning variation has been discussed both in the context of grammatical description and language change, mostly based on a handful of examples. This study seeks to combine theoretical and methodological approaches from construction grammar and interactional linguistics in the description of this meaning variation. Theoretically, this implies distinguishing between abstracted meaning potential and situated meaning of linguistic elements. Methodologically, this means taking both a coarse-grained view by means of a quantitative corpus-based approach that abstracts over a number of instances and a fine-grained view by means of qualitative analysis of talk-in-interaction.

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The Old English Have-Perfect and Its Congeners

Cited by 9 publications

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Developments in the Use of the English Present Perfect

Developments in the Use of the English Present Perfect

The Perfect

She has a stadium named after her

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