Depois de uma breve apresentação da estrutura do Manual de Linguística Portuguesa,
identificam-se neste capítulo as principais mudanças linguísticas que, ao longo do tempo …

The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed
diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish, and Modern …

O Pretérito Perfeito Composto do Indicativo é um tempo gramatical que apresenta, em
português europeu, tipicamente uma leitura iterativa, o que o distingue das restantes …

This article is devoted to the description of perfect tenses in Romance. Perfects can be
described as verbal forms which place events in the past with respect to some point of …

This study deals with the grammaticalization process of the aspectual periphrasis tenir+
participle in Old Catalan. Our point of departure is the dyachronic study (13th–16th …

In earlier stages of Portuguese, the present perfect (henceforth PPC, for the Portuguese term
pretérito perfeito composto), was used as a resultative perfect. For instance, in (1), the PPC …

Os crioulos indo-portugueses do Malabar, formados a partir do contacto linguístico entre os
colonizadores portugueses e a população nativa da costa do Malabar no séc. XVI, limitam …

We investigate the well studied Pretérito Perfeito Composto (tenho cantado) and the rather
under-studied vir+ gerúndio periphrasis (venho cantando) in Brazilian Portuguese based on …

The Portuguese and Galician pluperfect is unique in Romance. Rather than developing a
generalized compound pluperfect structure early, as did French and Spanish (eg, Fr. J'avais …

This dissertation investigates the synchronic variation of past participles and participle-
derived forms in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, relying on usage-based and socio …