Asked • 05/29/19

How to properly analyze grossly incoherent colloquial constructs?

Take a question like: > War jetzt morgen eigentlich Probe? The grammatical temporal cues are grossly incoherent: *War* is past tense, *jetzt* points to the present, *morgen* points to the future. No German speaker will have a problem understanding the question, however, because while the sentence is constructed from incoherent temporal cues, they are associated with different semantic layers of perception. Is there a proper way to reflect this when analyzing the question?

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