ACERCA DE LA REALIZACIÓN DEL SUBJUNTIVO DEL, PASADO EN EL ESPAÑOL PENINSULAR AL REFERIRSE A EVENTOS QUE ACABAN DE PRODUCIRSE.

The article deals with the realization of the past subjunctive when the event referred to has taken place immediately before the moment of utterance. In Peninsular Spanish, the use of the preterit perfect (PP) instead of the preterit indefinite is obligatory in such cases in the indicative mode. We studied empirically whether the past subjunctive is realised, because of analogy with the PP of indicative, as the PP of subjunctive (haya cantado) or as the imperfect of subjunctive (cantara/cantase). For this purpose, we carried out elicitation tests among 378 peninsular informants from seven different geographic areas. The results show that both types of the past subjunctive exist in immediate past contexts, without one being unambiguously more common than the other. Preference for one or the other form depends on the context, and the regional samples demonstrate both convergence and divergence. The latter is related to diatopic variation in the grammaticalization of the PP of indicative in Peninsular Spanish. The frequency of the PP of subjunctive tends to increase, because of analogy, if the predicate is preceded immediately by the PP of indicative in another clause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]