El tiempo verbal español e italiano: contrastes y equivalencias

Abstract

When teaching Spanish to Italian speakers, it is not rare tu come across grammatical issues concerning asymmetries between the two languages, not only at the level of the norm of the two systems being contrasted but also regarding the oral realization of the systems. One of the major problems is the current use of verb forms due to a combination of student lack of knowledge regarding possible equivalences and LI interference. This article underlines some contrasts in tenses that often result in errors due, in this particular case, to regional linguistic variants in Italian.