1 The functions referred to are 1) have got = 'have'; 2) causative have (She'll have you arrested); 3) the have passive (I had a present given me) and 4) the conclusive have perfect (Poirot has the police convinced of your innocence).
2 See Rydén & Brorström (1987:18).
3 The exception to this is the factor REC, which was evidenced from the examples.
4 Rydén & Brorström (1987:32) cite an occurrence of 's for has from 1717. No earlier instance has been found in any of the literature examined for this paper.
5 I.e., it is found under a separate heading in the OED.
6 Cf. Söderlind (1951:56), Ando (1976:123 ff).
7 But cf. Söderlind (1951:59).
9 The difficulties in separating the writers arise from the fact that the letters are found in a book on the history of the house of Lyme; no complete letters are printed in the book, and the author is not always known.
10 Land was found three times in the present study.
11 "Factor" and "parameter" are used synonymously in this context.
12 The construction was most frequent in the diaries:
This day I had the welcome news of our prize being come safe from Holland (Pepys p.192)
Being come to White-hall, we all went and kissed the King and Queenes hands (Evelyn p. 467)
Colchester increaseth in illnes being spread over the whole town (Josselin p. 520)
13 See Rydén & Brorström (1987:191); Fridén (1948:53).
14 The Works of George Etheredge, 1888, ed. by A. Wilson Verity, printed from the 1704 edition of Etheredge's works and "practically identical" with the text of the quartos and Restoration Comedy Vol. I, 1974, ed. by A. N. Jeffares, stating that "the base texts are those of the first editions".
16 In at least one of the instances Visser cites this is certainly the case; namely the quotation from J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Professor Tolkien deliberately chose an archaic language, as explained in a letter: "...a real archaic English is far more terse than modern; also many of things said could not be said in our slack and frivolous idiom" (Tolkien 1981:225).
17 See Rydén & Brorström (1987:97).
18 The instance is, incidentally, found in a play by Farquhar, as are two of the instances with have+get found in the present corpus.
19 See Rydén & Brorström (1987:104n).
20 "As early as the beginning of the 14th century one comes across instances with be in spite of direct object extensions [...] The form with be survives in present-day English with the meaning 'gone by in time'; 'elapsed'; 'done with' and the spelling past (Visser 1973:2065).