Article: Come si traduce la perifrasi italiana stare per + infinito in sloveno?
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2025
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Grošelj, Robert
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Lo scopo dell’articolo è stato quello di analizzare i traducenti sloveni della perifrasi imminenziale italiana stare per + infinito nel corpus parallelo italiano-sloveno ISPAC. Dal punto di vista strutturale tra i traducenti sloveni della perifrasi prevalgono forme verbali personali, seguite da costrutti con un verbo servile accompagnato dall’infinito (o supino), costrutti con una frase dipendente o costrutti con un sintagma preposizionale o sostantivale; alcune possibilità traduttive includono anche altri elementi lessicali che aggiungono valori semantici (azionali e temporali) più specifici. La maggioranza dei traducenti sloveni della perifrasi imminenziale italiana possono essere considerati quasi imminenziali – si tratta di forme verbali (gli imperfettivi passati o presenti) o verbi (ad es. pripravljati se ‘prepararsi’) riguardanti la fase preparatoria di un’azione, costrutti con verbi intenzionali (ad es. hoteti ‘volere’ o nameravati ‘avere intenzione’), forme verbali con ottica prospettiva (il futuro) e, più raramente, costrutti con il verbo incoativo začeti ‘cominciare’. Più raramente si può parlare dell’imminenzialità (della prossimità temporale) vera e propria – il più delle volte si tratta delle possibilità traduttive di cui sopra accompagnate da elementi lessicali indicanti la vicinanza temporale (l’imminenza), ad es. vsak čas ‘a momenti’, kmalu ‘presto’, že ‘già’, skoraj (že) ‘quasi’, o dei costrutti imminenziali del tipo biti (že) na tem ‘essere (già) sul punto di’ + frase dipendente o biti (tik) pred ‘essere (poco) prima di’ + sostantivo. In alcuni casi, invece, i traducenti sloveni si discostano dall’imminenzialità della perifrasi italiana, indicando il raggiungimento della fase puntuale o lo svolgimento della fase durativa di un’azione.
How to translate the Italian periphrasis stare per + infinitive in Slovene? The aim of the article was to analyse Slovene translation equivalents of the Italian imminential periphrasis stare per + infinitive in the Italian-Slovenian parallel corpus ISPAC. From a structural point of view, personal verb forms prevail among the Slovene translation equivalents of the Italian periphrasis, followed by constructions with auxiliary verbs accompanied by the infinitive (or supine), constructions with a dependent clause or constructions with a prepositional or noun phrase; some translation equivalents also include other lexical elements that contribute additional actional and temporal nuance. The majority of Slovene translation equivalents can be considered quasi-imminential – they include verbal forms (past or present imperfectives) or verbs (e.g., pripravljati se ‘to prepare’) indicating the preparatory phase of an action, constructions with intentional verbs (e.g., hoteti ‘to want’ or nameravati ‘to have intention’), verbal forms with prospective semantics (the future tense) and, more rarely, constructions with the incoative verb začeti ‘to begin’. More rarely, one can speak of imminentiality (temporal proximity) itself – most often the equivalents in this category include the aforementioned translation possibilities accompanied by lexical elements indicating temporal proximity (imminence), e.g., vsak čas ‘any minute’, kmalu ‘soon’, že ‘already’, skoraj (že) ‘almost’, or the imminential constructions such as biti (že) na tem ‘to be about to’ + dependent clause or biti (tik) pred ‘to be (just) before’ + noun. In some cases, however, the Slovenian translation equivalents deviate from the imminential semantics of the Italian periphrasis, indicating the attainment of the punctual phase or the unfolding of the durative phase of an action.
How to translate the Italian periphrasis stare per + infinitive in Slovene? The aim of the article was to analyse Slovene translation equivalents of the Italian imminential periphrasis stare per + infinitive in the Italian-Slovenian parallel corpus ISPAC. From a structural point of view, personal verb forms prevail among the Slovene translation equivalents of the Italian periphrasis, followed by constructions with auxiliary verbs accompanied by the infinitive (or supine), constructions with a dependent clause or constructions with a prepositional or noun phrase; some translation equivalents also include other lexical elements that contribute additional actional and temporal nuance. The majority of Slovene translation equivalents can be considered quasi-imminential – they include verbal forms (past or present imperfectives) or verbs (e.g., pripravljati se ‘to prepare’) indicating the preparatory phase of an action, constructions with intentional verbs (e.g., hoteti ‘to want’ or nameravati ‘to have intention’), verbal forms with prospective semantics (the future tense) and, more rarely, constructions with the incoative verb začeti ‘to begin’. More rarely, one can speak of imminentiality (temporal proximity) itself – most often the equivalents in this category include the aforementioned translation possibilities accompanied by lexical elements indicating temporal proximity (imminence), e.g., vsak čas ‘any minute’, kmalu ‘soon’, že ‘already’, skoraj (že) ‘almost’, or the imminential constructions such as biti (že) na tem ‘to be about to’ + dependent clause or biti (tik) pred ‘to be (just) before’ + noun. In some cases, however, the Slovenian translation equivalents deviate from the imminential semantics of the Italian periphrasis, indicating the attainment of the punctual phase or the unfolding of the durative phase of an action.
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lingvistika, italština, slovinština
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perifrasi verbale, imminenzialità, equivalenti traduttivi, italiano, sloveno, verbal periphrasis, imminentiality, translation equivalents, Italian, Slovene
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doi.org/ 10.15452/SR.2024.25.0011
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Studia Romanistica 25(2), 2025, 7-22