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Abstract This paper seeks an explanation of the Perfect in the Romance languages that takes into account its temporal rather than aspectual features. We contend that there is no real “aoristicization” process of the Perfect over time and across languages, but instead a semantic expansion of the notion of simultaneity enclosed in the functional configuration of the form. Based on the classical time vector configuration for Spanish posited by Rojo (1974) and Rojo & Veiga (1999) , we argue that the semantic differences of the Perfect in Romance languages can be explained as a different development of the semantic possibilities of the simultaneity vector, whereby it may remain at a very low level and be hardly deictic (Portuguese) or become a pure sign of locutionality, and therefore mainly pragmatic (French).
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