<Li> During the Renaissance, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and a few other Romance languages developed a progressive aspect which did not exist in Latin . In French, progressive constructions remain very limited, the imperfect generally being preferred, as in Latin . </Li> <Li> Many Romance languages now have a verbal construction analogous to the present perfect of English . In some, it has taken the place of the old preterite (at least in the vernacular); in others, the two coexist with somewhat different meanings (cf . English I did vs. I have done). A few examples: <Ul> <Li> preterite only: Galician, Asturian, Sicilian, Leonese, Portuguese, some dialects of Spanish; </Li> <Li> preterite and present perfect: Catalan, Occitan, standard Spanish; </Li> <Li> present perfect predominant, preterite now literary: French, Romanian, several dialects of Italian, some dialects of Spanish; </Li> <Li> present perfect only: Romansh </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> preterite only: Galician, Asturian, Sicilian, Leonese, Portuguese, some dialects of Spanish; </Li> <Li> preterite and present perfect: Catalan, Occitan, standard Spanish; </Li> <Li> present perfect predominant, preterite now literary: French, Romanian, several dialects of Italian, some dialects of Spanish; </Li> <Li> present perfect only: Romansh </Li> </Ul> <Li> preterite only: Galician, Asturian, Sicilian, Leonese, Portuguese, some dialects of Spanish; </Li>

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