Grammaticalisation Paths of «Have» in English

This book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functions of have is analysed from pragmatic-semantic, morphosyntactic and phonetic angles. Apart from the well-known and formerly studied cases of the rise of perfect and obligative have , the author describes the developments of the had better structure as well as causative have which have not received much scholarly attention thus far. He shows that the first