La variación Antepresente/Pretérito en dos áreas del español peninsular

The paper deals with the ways the Present Perfect develops to Simple Past values in two regional varieties of Peninsular Spanish: Salamanca and San Sebastián. Starting from models which propose a linear process of grammaticalization or «aoristization» of the Present Perfect that consolidate in hodiernal contexts (occurring on the same day as the speech event) and gradually extends to prehodiernal ones (occurring before the ‘today’ of the speech event), we present a more complex description of the Peninsular varieties, according to which San Sebastián’s but not Salamanca’s speech fulfills the expecting model. In Salamanca an «aoristic drift»of the Present Perfect in prehodiernal contexts is shown before it becomes consolidated in the hodiernal ones. We are thus obliged to set out an alternative proposal to the most generally accepted pattern of «aoristization» in Peninsular Spanish.