Our interest here will be to focus on a fundamental feature of the behavior of Spanish ESTAR + GERUND structure, which, however, seems to have gone unnoticed in grammar descriptions up to now. This grammatical operator, when conjugated in present tense, often refers to actions which have already taken place, which strongly calls into question its categorization as a progressive periphrasis.

Presente retrospectivo / LAURENCIO TACORONTE, Ariel. - In: RIVISTA DI FILOLOGIA E LETTERATURE ISPANICHE. - ISSN 1591-2922. - 22:(2019), pp. 257-277.

Presente retrospectivo

Ariel Laurencio
2019-01-01

Abstract

Our interest here will be to focus on a fundamental feature of the behavior of Spanish ESTAR + GERUND structure, which, however, seems to have gone unnoticed in grammar descriptions up to now. This grammatical operator, when conjugated in present tense, often refers to actions which have already taken place, which strongly calls into question its categorization as a progressive periphrasis.
2019
Nos interesará aquí centrarnos en un rasgo fundamental del comportamiento de la estructura ESTAR + GERUNDIO, el cual sin embargo parece haber pasado desapercibido en las descripciones gramaticales hasta la actualidad. Este operador gramatical, al ser conjugado en tiempo presente, suele referirse a acciones que ya han tenido lugar, lo que pone fuertemente en entredicho su categorización como perífrasis progresiva.
Presente retrospectivo / LAURENCIO TACORONTE, Ariel. - In: RIVISTA DI FILOLOGIA E LETTERATURE ISPANICHE. - ISSN 1591-2922. - 22:(2019), pp. 257-277.
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