TY - JOUR AU - Fábregas, Antonio PY - 2015/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - 'Imperfecto' and 'indefinido' in Spanish: what, where and how JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Articles on the monographic topic DO - 10.7557/1.4.2.3534 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/3534 SP - 1-70 AB - This article aims to providing the reader with an overview of the main facts and analyses about the syntax and semantics of imperfecto and indefinido in Spanish. §1 presents the main views of the nature of tense in natural language; §2 introduces the main distinctions and classifications of tense in Spanish, from a descriptive perspective; §3 does the same with aspect. §4, the core of the article, reviews the facts and the analyses about the famous <em>imperfecto ~ indefinido</em> distinction in the Spanish temporoaspectual domain. §5 takes stock of the facts in Spanish, and outlines some conclusions. ER -