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Nonfuture tense

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Anonfuture tense(abbreviatedNFUT) is agrammatical tensethat distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in the past or the present, as opposed to thefuture tense.[1]Nonfuture tense is found in languages such asRukai,Greenlandic,Quechua,YabemandNivkh.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Nonfuture Tense".Glossary of Linguistic Terms.2015-12-03.Retrieved2024-06-10.
  2. ^(Li 1996, 1997)