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The choice of "have you got", "do you have" and "have you" in present-day English
 JOSKOVÁ, Pavlína
This BA thesis concentrates on alternative possibilities of expressing a question with the lexical verb have in today´s English. The traditional form of have you employing simple S-V inversion has been considered to be disappearing to the point that it was largely ignored in simplified grammars and textbooks. However, this is in contrast with current authentic English texts, where questions of this type do occur. The aim of this thesis therefore is to find out which factors affect the final choice of a particular alternative. The theoretical part draws on relevant linguistic literature, the main source of examples used in the practical part is the British National Corpus. The factors considered include the semantics of the verb, the structure of the noun phrases complementing the verb, and also the semantics of the head noun. Both written and spoken texts were used as sources of the structures examined in this thesis.
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