What is it about?
In some cases, the use of the resultative compound perfect is grammatical in standard Spanish even with prehodiernal time expressions. On the other hand, also the "aoristic" compound perfect appears in those contexts to some extent. The common denominator in all these cases is a strong mental association between the past event and the moment of utterance.
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Why is it important?
The case examples contribute to an understanding of the Spanish compound perfect and show that it has never lost its ties to the moment of utterance, however independent of it the compound perfect may appear. In this respect, Spanish also differs from some other Romance languages, such as French, in which the compound perfect has evolved into a "purely aoristic" tense.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure for me, because my participation in a research project at the University of Salamanca has increased my own understanding of the essence of the Spanish compound perfect, the topic of my PhD dissertation (Kempas 2006).
Ilpo Kempas
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This page is a summary of: Acerca del uso prehodiernal del pretérito perfecto compuesto resultativo en español, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zrp-2017-0035.
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