Abstract
In the following article we are presenting a common phenomenon we notice in our everyday translation classes: the different aspectual interpretations given by prospective translators with Spanish L1 of German narrative sequences, given the same predicate whose nucleus is conjugated in a (German) past tense. The aim of this paper is to provide a description of this phenomenon, along with an attempt of explanation of it. First, a brief overview of the Cognitive Theory of Aspectuality is given, and its main concepts are related to the Scenes & Frames theory applied to Translation Studies. Then, data of a parallel corpus (DE>ES) from students´ translations is analyzed and the results explained. Finally, we suggest the calque of certain microframes of the German source text as a possible explanation for this double aspectual interpretation phenomenon and two new hypotheses are outlined, which constitute a starting point for deeper studies of this issue
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