Echivalenţe ale timpurilor prezumtivului românesc în limba italiană
The Italian Equivalents of the Tenses of Romanian Presumptive

Summary/Abstract: Expressing uncertainty, doubt and probability, the presumtive mood is realized by specialized morphemes only in Romanian language. It is actualized into two tenses [present and perfect], that mark simultaneity, respectively anteriority towards the moment of speach. From the morphological point of view, it is characterized by three sets of paradigms: the present tens is realized by the help of the future, subjonctive and conditional of the auxiliary „to be” and the gerund of the basic verb, whereas the perfect has homonymous forms with the anterior future, the perfect subjonctive and the perfect conditional ones. Since Romanian is the only language of the Romanic family that presents specialized forms for expressing the modal meaning of probability, this paper proposes to find correspondences between the Romanian presumtive and the italian unspecialized means of expression that contain this modal value. For this purpose, it will be analyzed a corpus that comprises fragments of Alberto Moravia’s novel, „Ciociara”, translated into Romanian by George and Adriana Lăzărescu. The study will try to explain the reason why some of the modal or temporal forms from the source text are transposed by the translators into presumtive in Romanian language.

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