Abstract

GARCIA FAJARDO, Josefina. The notion of “temporal course” in the emergence of the sense of the “proximal past” with the verbal form he amado. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2017, vol.65, n.2, pp.379-406. ISSN 2448-6558.  https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v65i2.3100.

Linguists have already pointed to the central issues in the development of haber in present tense plus participle (Alarcos Llorach 1947; Harris 1982; Arias 2005, among others). I will show here that the notion of “temporal course” (“cauce temporal”: García Fajardo 2014) explains how this construction came to be used to refer to the proximate past. I also intend to show how at a certain time the construction diverged from the “temporal course” and that this divergence coincided with a moment in time -identified by various writers (Lapesa 1942; Lope Blanch 1961, among others)- when the Castilian and the Mexican uses of this construction took separate paths.

Keywords : present perfect; diachrony; semantic value; temporal course; verbal forms.

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