A nonfuture tense (abbreviated NFUT) is a grammatical tense that distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in times past or times present, as opposed to a future tense.[1] Nonfuture tense is found in a languages such as Rukai, Greenlandic, Quechua, Yabem and Nivkh.[2]
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- ^ What is nonfuture tense? 5 January 2004
- ^ (Li 1996, 1997)
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