Feliz cumpleaños, Liliana!

I'm eager for an electronic pat on the back, so I did a little digging for you. I think you're talking about telicity.

In linguistics, telicity is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense. A verb or verb phrase with this property is said to be telic, while a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being incomplete is said to be atelic.

Here's a paper that discusses the Spanish morpheme se as a telic marker (see page 20).

Empresas como Kraft se apresuran a decir que sus productos, las galletas Oreo en este caso, no contienen leche china. Starbucks, por su parte, ha comunicado que ahora utiliza leche procedente de Hong Kong en todas sus cafeterías asiáticas, y Cadbury se ha visto obligada a retirar sus chocolatinas producidas en China.

Just wondering if anyone can offer insight into the phrase "se ha visto obligada"? It's easy enough to understand as "has seen itself obliged," but I am wondering if anyone can tell me more about the grammar here? Is this a common pattern?

Thanks...

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