The Catalan present perfect has two uses - a temporal use referring to events within the day, and an aspectual use referring to past situations with present relevance. A corpus study of 1285 tokens from Catalan plays found that the temporal use occurs with all verb types and only accepts adverbs of time within a day, while the experiential aspectual use occurs with atelic verbs and adverbs of frequency or time span. The resultative aspectual use occurs with telic verbs and typically no adverbs. The analysis proposes the Catalan present perfect is a temporal operator referring to precedence between reference and speech times for the temporal use, and an aspectual operator relating event and reference times for the aspectual uses.