Is there really an aspectual se in Spanish?

Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit the so-called aspectual se , frequently cited over last three decades as a new function reflexive pronouns in Spanish and other languages, which refers facultative uses pronoun where it has no effect on valency or diathesis verb. I will focus four empirical problems that such accounts face when dealing with corpus data: requirement delimited object for transitive verbs, semantic implications pronoun, unacceptability some predicates, fact these have ignored number predicates also take pronoun. argue larger sample both contexts obtained by exhaustively analyzing data, necessary improve our understanding uses.