El pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo en la Edad Media: distribución dialectal, entornos sintácticos y tradicionalidad discursiva

Abstract

The history of the Spanish Perfect Subjunctive (haya cantado) had not yet been dealt with in any significant depth. In this contribution, we aim at filling this lacuna by examining its frequency of use in Medieval Ages, as well as its presence across Central Ibero-Romance dialects, its syntactic distribution, its temporal and aspectual content and its informational status (particularly with regard to factivity) in Old Castilian. In the concluding section, we will put forth a proposal that accounts for the spread of this form across particular texts and varieties into the standard.