Nonfuture tense

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 future tense.^[1] The tense is found in the Rukai, a language of Taiwan.^[2]

References

1. ↑ http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsNonfutureTense.htm
2. ↑ (Li 1996, 1997)