Timeline for Asking a question with "have" without do-support: "What symptoms has Anne?"

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Dec 15, 2013 at 15:36	history	edited	RegDwigнt	CC BY-SA 3.0	edited body; edited tags; edited title
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May 19, 2013 at 18:51	answer	added	Colin Fine		timeline score: 2
May 19, 2013 at 18:49	comment	added	Colin Fine		@JohnLawler: though I have been watching non-auxiliary have worm its way into British life over the last fifty years. I even find myself saying Do you have sometimes.
May 18, 2013 at 16:46	comment	added	John Lawler		There are two verbs have. One means 'possess' and the other is an auxiliary verb for the perfect construction. The auxiliary have inverts in a question when it's the first auxiliary (Have you considered chartered accountancy?), and in the UK, so does the 'possess' have (Have you any questions?), but in the US the 'possess' have is not treated like an auxiliary, but undergoes Do-Support (Do you have any questions?), like any other meaningful verb (Do you like mayonnaise?). So in US English, have is a semi-auxiliary; in the UK, it's an auxiliary.
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