Bertinetto (2001) points out that in spite of the great amount of research and papers developed on the nature of aspectual and temporal relations in natural languages, the lack of consensus on some very basic notions related to this topic is still remarkable. The paper by Wachowicz, presented at the annual Encontro do GT em Teoria da Gramática da ANPOLL, in Ouro Preto, from 1 st to 2 nd of December, 2005 and, later, published in volume 14, number 2 of this magazine, constitutes an interesting

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... tempt to clarify some questions on a very underexplored topic, namely, the aspectual reading in sentences with verbal periphrases in which the first verb is an auxiliary. This paper discusses Wachowicz's proposal, raising some questions and making some observations on it. It aims at contributing to the research being developed, with the reflections by someone who is not directly involved in it. Resumo Bertinetto (2001) aponta que, apesar das inúmeras pesquisas e artigos desenvolvidos e elaborados sobre a natureza das relações aspectuais e temporais nas línguas naturais, a falta de consenso sobre algumas noções fundamentais relacionadas ao assunto ainda é notável. O artigo de Wachowicz, apresentado no Encontro do GT em Teoria da Gramática da ANPOLL, em Ouro Preto, de 1 a 2/12/2005, e