Movima (isolate, Amazonian Bolivia) has no verbal tense morphology. Unlike other tenseless languages, Movima does not recur to mood or aspect morphology, but instead uses a rich system of referential elements (articles, pronouns, demonstratives) to express temporal relations. This strategy can be described as "nominal tense marking". However, Movima proves to be different from the languages where this phenomenon has been described so far, because here, the same markers that indicate temporal properties of a nominal referent, can also determine the temporal interpretation of a clause as a whole. This conflation of "independent" and "propositional" nominal tense marking has so far not been identified in any other language and can be considered a crosslinguistic rarity.
