Los tiempos compuestos y la transformación modo-temporal de la forma cantara
Compound tenses and modal and temporal transformation of the form cantara

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the relation between modal and temporal changes of the form cantara, and the expansion of the compound tenses created in the Romance verbal system. The paper includes comparison of the situation in three languages of the Iberian Peninsula: Spanish, Galician and Portuguese with special attention to Spanish. In this language, as opposed to Galician and Portuguese, took place the migration of cantara from the indicative to the subjunctive mood. Nevertheless, in some distribution the use and the modal value of the form in -ra is similar in the three languages. Spanish and Portuguese have compound verbal forms, whereas Galician has only simple forms. This fact suggests that there is no direct dependence between the diffusion of the compound tenses and the modal and temporal transformation of the form cantara.

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