List of tables
2.1Quantificational vs. Referential Tense29
2.2Terminology in aspect theory30
2.3Binary classification of the lexical classes (inspired by Filip
2012: 727)31
2.4Tempo-aspectual adverbials40
2.5The identifiability critieria for definiteness and specificity (von
Heusinger 2002: 249)50
2.6Cross-classification of definiteness and specificity (von Heusinger
2002: 253)50
2.7Diachronic path of the PP (Bertinetto and Squartini 2000: 406, inspired by
Harris 1982)53
2.8The PP readings forming an implicational scale59
2.9Tempo-aspectual adverbials combined with the quantificational PP66
3.1Tempo-aspectual adverbials and the PPCpt98
4.1tener vs. haber (inpired by Detges
2000: 349)125
4.2Tempo-aspectual adverbials and the PPCsp139
4.3Temporal relations between PPCsp and Indefinido according
to Moreno-Torres Sánchez (1999: 245)141
5.1The Peninsular Spanish Corpus159
5.2Poor PPCpt frequencies in Brazilian series/movies161
5.3The Brazilian Portuguese Corpus162
5.4Expected discourse functions for PPCpt and
PPCsp178
6.1The grammaticalization path of the PPCsp in Alicante
Spanish from anterior to perfective (Schwenter 1994a: 99)213
6.2The PPCsp between quantification and reference216
6.3A discursive approach to the PPCsp’s referential
drift224
6.4The PPCsp’s values in Peninsular Spanish according to
Azpiazu Torres (2019: 204)231
6.512/65 participants with non-uniform diatopic background234
6.6Linear mixed effect model for the main effect of tense235
6.7Pairwise testing of tense interacting with remoteness236
6.8Contrasts between the PPCsp scores across the three major
dialectal groups237