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Journal Articles Anglophonia / Caliban - French Journal of English Linguistics Year : 2008

Had + Have

Abstract

Contemporary English syntax does not allow redundant constructions like double superlatives, repeated negatives, or combinations of modals. There is, however, an example of verbal construction in the form of a "double perfect" (i.e. had have + V-en) which appears in informal speech instead of a regular pluperfect to express modal remoteness. It is a rather unusual construction in that had is followed by a bare infinitive, not a past participle. In this type of combination, which is not a recent grammatical innovation, it is questionable whether had have (had've) should be regarded as a compound auxiliary made of two forms of have, or as two distinct auxiliaries referring each to a distinct operation. The use of had have in counterfactuals explains why the analysis first deals with "modal had" and the non-temporal preterite verb forms in Modern English usage. I then describe current non-standard productions containing had have in an attempt to define the values of the constituents and the function of this auxiliary construction

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hal-03061343 , version 1 (14-12-2020)

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Patrice Larroque. Had + Have : une étrange construction grammaticale. Anglophonia / Caliban - French Journal of English Linguistics, 2008, 22, pp.81-94. ⟨hal-03061343⟩

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