Nonfuture tense
Encyclopedia
A nonfuture tense is a grammatical tense
that distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in times past or times present, as opposed to future tense
.http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsNonfutureTense.htm The tense is found in the Rukai
, a language of Taiwan.(Li
1996, 1997)
Grammatical tense
A tense is a grammatical category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place.Bernard Comrie, Aspect, 1976:6:...
that distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in times past or times present, as opposed to future tense
Future tense
In grammar, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future , or to happen subsequent to some other event, whether that is past, present, or future .-Expressions of future tense:The concept of the future,...
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Rukai
The Rukai are one of Taiwan's aboriginal peoples. They speak the Rukai language and live in the mountains of southern Taiwan. As of the year 2000, the Rukai numbered 12,084 — making up 3% of Taiwan's total indigenous population and, as such, the fifth-largest indigenous group...
, a language of Taiwan.
1996, 1997)