01665nas a2200121   4500008004100000245015200041210012600193300001200319490000600331520112200337100003101459856005301490       1983                        eng d00aОбобщително-актуализиращата същност на перфекта във френския и българския език0 aОбобщителноактуализиращата същност на перфекта във френския и бъ  a33–410 v83 aThe paper discusses some characteristic features of the Perfect tense in French and Bulgarian in comparison to the past tenses and to the whole temporal system. In contrast to the Imperfect and Aorist, the Perfect manifests strong generalizing qualities and expresses direct contact with the present. The semantic similarities between the Perfect and the Present tenses are discussed. The similarity is enhanced in Bulgarian by the qualifying character of the auxiliary verb съм ‘to be’. It seems to be a linguistic fact with considerable consequences in the language that the passé composé has adopted most of the characteristic features of the Aorist and has become the basic narrative tense. There are considerable differences in this respect across the two languages. The author maintains that the Perfect tense in Bulgarian exhibits some typical combinatorial preferences for certain adverbial modifiers, which can be a reliable criterion for defining the value of the Perfect tense in French. It might also facilitate the choice of the most adequate functional equivalent in the process of translation.1 aМихов, Николай  uhttp://scripta-bulgarica.eu/bg/biblio/mihov1983a