A nonfuture tense (abbreviated nfut) is a grammatical tense that distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in the past or the present, as opposed to the future tense.[1] Nonfuture tense is found in languages such as Rukai, Greenlandic, Quechua, Yabem and Nivkh.[2]
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[edit]- ^ "Nonfuture Tense". Glossary of Linguistic Terms. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ (Li 1996, 1997)
