| Acknowledgments | v |
| Abbreviations | xi |
| 1. | Introduction | 1 |
| 1.1. | Grammaticalization paths | 1 |
| 1.2. | Aspect and actionality | 3 |
| 1.2.1. | Aspect | 3 |
| 1.2.2. | Actional classification | 4 |
| 1.2.3. | The relationship between aspect and actionality | 7 |
| 1.2.3.1. | No distinction between aspect and actionality | 10 |
| 1.2.3.2. | A semantic distinction | 11 |
| 1.2.3.3. | A morphological distinction | 13 |
| 1.3. | Romance periphrases | 18 |
| 1.3.1. | Analytic and synthetic verb forms | 19 |
| 1.3.2. | A list of the analytic verb forms in Romance | 23 |
| 2. | Aspect and actionality in the Spanish Perfective Progressive | 35 |
| 2.1. | Introduction | 35 |
| 2.2. | Aspect | 37 |
| 2.3. | Actionality | 41 |
| 2.3.1. | Actionality and temporally ordered sequences | 46 |
| 2.3.2. | Temporal adverbials | 50 |
| 2.4. | Perfective Progressives vs. synthetic forms | 55 |
| 2.5. | Comparison to the Slavic system | 58 |
| 2.6. | Comparison to English phrasal verbs | 66 |
| 2.7. | Spanish ir + gerund | 68 |
| 2.8. | Concluding remarks | 69 |
| 3. | Aspect and actionality in the grammaticalization of the Romance Progressive | 71 |
| 3.1. | Perfective and Imperfective Progressive | 71 |
| 3.2. | Spanish vs. Italian | 73 |
| 3.2.1. | Some consequences for the grammaticalization theory | 89 |
| 3.3. | Further developments in American Spanish: [- Aspect] [- Actionality] | 90 |
| 3.4. | States, habituals and Progressives | 103 |
| 3.5. | The Progressive in the other Romance languages | 112 |
| 3.5.1. | Ibero-Romance languages | 112 |
| 3.5.1.1. | Portuguese | 112 |
| 3.5.1.2. | Galician | 115 |
| 3.5.1.3. | Catalan | 117 |
| 3.5.2. | Sardinian | 118 |
| 3.5.3. | French and Occitan | 119 |
| 3.5.4. | The diachronic development of etre en train de + infinitive | 125 |
| 3.5.5. | Stare + gerund and stare a + infinitive in Italian | 127 |
| 3.5.6. | Estar + gerund and estar a + infinitive in Portuguese | 133 |
| 3.6. | "Progressive forms" in Romance: some conclusions | 136 |
| 3.7. | Some definitions of Romance gerundial periphrases | 137 |
| 3.8. | Some definitions of Spanish estar + gerund | 144 |
| 3.9. | Concluding remarks | 149 |
| 4. | The interaction of aspect and actionality in some other Romance periphrases | 152 |
| 4.1. | Portuguese Present Perfect | 152 |
| 4.1.1. | The diachronic evolution of the Portuguese Present Perfect | 158 |
| 4.1.2. | Ter/tener + past participle in the other Ibero-Romance languages | 162 |
| 4.1.2.1. | Standard Spanish | 163 |
| 4.1.2.2. | Asturian | 164 |
| 4.1.2.3. | Galician | 165 |
| 4.1.2.4. | Judaeo-Spanish | 166 |
| 4.2. | Mexican Present Perfect | 167 |
| 4.2.1. | The Present Perfect in other varieties of American and European Spanish | 180 |
| 4.2.1.1. | Puerto Rico | 180 |
| 4.2.1.2. | Colombia | 181 |
| 4.2.1.3. | Argentina | 182 |
| 4.2.1.4. | Canary Islands | 183 |
| 4.2.2. | The diachronic evolution of the Spanish Present Perfect | 185 |
| 4.3. | Sicilian Present Perfect | 188 |
| 4.4. | Non-durative periphrases? | 189 |
| 4.4.1. | Catalan analytic Perfective Past | 189 |
| 4.4.2. | Occitan | 192 |
| 4.4.3. | Other possible non-durative/telic periphrases | 196 |
| 4.4.3.1. | Italian 'Trapassato Remoto' | 197 |
| 4.4.3.2. | French | 200 |
| 4.4.3.3. | Spanish | 202 |
| 4.4.3.4. | Formes surcomposees | 203 |
| 4.5. | Concluding remarks | 206 |
| 5. | Motion auxiliaries and actional restrictions | 207 |
| 5.1. | Introduction | 207 |
| 5.2. | Italian andare + gerund | 209 |
| 5.2.1. | Basic actional requirements: durativity and non-stativity | 209 |
| 5.2.2. | Andare + gerund vs. stare + gerund | 212 |
| 5.2.3. | More details on the actional restrictions of andare + gerund | 214 |
| 5.2.4. | On the diachronic evolution of andare + gerund | 223 |
| 5.2.5. | The actional value of the verb andare and its diachronic evolution | 229 |
| 5.2.6. | Andare + gerund and stare a + infinitive | 234 |
| 5.2.7. | Andare, stare and telicity | 236 |
| 5.3. | Motion periphrases in the other Romance languages | 243 |
| 5.3.1. | French | 244 |
| 5.3.2. | Occitan | 247 |
| 5.3.3. | Catalan | 248 |
| 5.3.4. | Spanish | 249 |
| 5.3.4.1. | Estar + gerund vs. ir + gerund | 249 |
| 5.3.4.2. | Ir + gerund vs. andar + gerund | 255 |
| 5.3.4.3. | Some more details on the actional restrictions of ir/andar + gerund | 266 |
| 5.3.4.4. | Ir + gerund and andar + gerund in Old Spanish | 275 |
| 5.3.4.5. | Andar + gerund and estar + gerund | 278 |
| 5.3.5. | Ir + gerund and andar + gerund (or + infinitive) in Portuguese | 280 |
| 5.3.5.1. | Gerundial and infinitival constructions in Portuguese | 285 |
| 5.3.6. | Other Romance periphrases | 287 |
| 5.4. | 'Come' + gerund in Romance | 289 |
| 5.5. | Concluding remarks | 299 |
| Conclusion | 301 |
| Notes | 304 |
| Sources of material | 334 |
| References | 336 |
| Index of subjects | 363 |
