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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A nonfuturetense (abbreviated NFUT) is a grammatical tense that distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in the past or the present, as opposed...
as Greenlandic, Quechua, and Nivkh have future and nonfuture. Some languages have four or more tenses, making finer distinctions either in the past (e.g...
marking the future tense. He argues that since there is no grammatical distinction between past and present, Hopi has a future-nonfuturetense system. Malotki...
(Ph.D. dissertation). Chicago: University of Chicago. NFUT:nonfuturetense:Nonfuturetense PAUC:paucal number:Paucal number INT:interrogative particle:Interrogative...
encoding tense, the predicate, and a postverbal particle with a function yet to be fully investigated. Daagare marks past and future tenses by the use...
that Greenlandic has a basic temporal distinction between future and nonfuture. Especially, the suffix -ssa and handful of other suffixes have been claimed...
prefixes that distinguish three persons (plus clusivity) and two tenses, Nonfuture and Future. (The latter distinction is often characterized as one...
markers. Esser (1934) described this category as two distinct tenses comparable to nonfuture/future, even though temporal relations are mostly expressed...
distinguish realis and irrealis mood (which usually translates to nonfuture vs. future tense). Each prefix also has a high-tone (H) and a low-tone (L) allomorph...
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