Genre Determining Prediction: Non-Standard TAM Marking in Football Language

German and French football language display tense-aspect-mood (TAM) forms which differ from the TAM use in other genres. In talk, present indicative may replace pluperfect subjunctive. reports of matches, imperfective past occur instead a perfective tense-aspect form. We argue that two phenomena share functional core are licensed same way, is direct result genre they in. More precisely, match adhere to precise script specific events temporally determined terms objective time. This allows speakers exploit secondary function forms, namely, shift temporal perspective. it on grounds comprehenders predict deviating also able decode them. various corpus studies, we explore functioning these order gain insights into their distribution, grammaticalization discourse. Relevant factors Aktionsart properties, rhetorical relations interaction with forms. us discuss coping mechanisms part comprehender. broaden our understanding phenomena, have only been partly covered for up now seem ignored German.