How is 'get' being used in these sentences?
What grammar structure is this?
- Bob got/had me drunk.
- She's got me spending.
- Get moving!
- Get going!
- That music gets/has me dancing!
- He had/got me stumped.
- She had/got me stoned.
Is it possible to say: She has/had me spending?
Solution 1:
Got can be used as an auxiliary verb meaning
reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition
[with object and complement]: I need to get my hair cut
[as auxiliary verb] used with past participle to form the passive mood: the cat got drowned
[with object and past participle] cause to be treated in a specified way: get the form signed by a doctor [got met drunk; [has] got me stumped; got me stoned]
[with object and infinitive] induce or prevail upon (someone) to do something: they got her to sign the consent form
[no object, with infinitive] have the opportunity to do:he got to try out a few of these nice new cars
[no object, with present participle or infinitive] begin to be or do something, especially gradually or by chance: we got talking one evening [got me spending; get going; gets me dancing]
While have is a much used helping verb, some of your proposed constructions do work and some do not.
OK:
He had me stumped.
That music has me dancing.
She had me spending [but probably would not be used without additional modifiers, such as like a drunken sailor]
Not OK:
Bob had me drunk.
She had me stoned.
Solution 2:
Get and have are both auxiliary verbs like be, so their choice depends on the constructions they're in. Plus, get is related to both be and have -- it's the inchoative verb form for both of these auxiliaries.
Get is an inchoative verb, originally meaning come to have; therefore it's usable in many constructions with have:
- He has a new car ~ He came to have a new car ~ He got a new car.
- He has finished it ~ He has it finished ~ He'll get it finished.
Get also means come to be and is therefore also usable in many be constructions.
- He married her ~ He was married to her ~ He got married to her.
- He works on that ~ He is working on that ~ He got working on that.
Get can also, like most inchoatives, be used as a Causative, e.g, cause to come to be
- The wiring is fixed ~ The wiring got fixed ~ He got the wiring fixed.
- He is working on that ~ He got working on that ~ I got him going on that.
That's the source of most of the get examples in the original question.
Have, however, is another story altogether. There are a number of have constructions, including a volitional causative which also works with get:
- He had the floors polished ~ He got the floors polished.
and a different construction of the same shape that implies bad fortune, and also works with get:
- He had his tires slashed ~ He got his tires slashed.
and a sense in which it refers to success of a goal, and effectively means cause or make; get works here, also, but requires infinitives with to.
- He had us dancing/dance on the table ~ He got us dancing/to dance on the table.
- I had him see his advisor about that ~ I got him to see his advisor about that.
Finally, if you can say
- I am spending
then you can say
- She's got me spending
or
- She has me spending.
in any tense of have or get, if you mean that she is the cause of your spending.