Dubitative mood
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Dubitative mood (abbreviated Page Template:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.dub) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, that indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or uncertain.[1] It may subsist as a separate morphological category, as in Bulgarian, or else as a category of use of another form, as of the conditional mood of Italian or French:
- Script error: No such module "Lang". "He was taken to hospital."
- Script error: No such module "Lang". "He was apparently/He is said to have been/We believe he was/The information we have is that he was taken to hospital."
An example can be taken from Ojibwe, an Algonquian language of North America. Verbs in Ojibwe can be marked with a dubitative suffix, indicating that the speaker is doubtful or uncertain about what they are saying.
- Script error: No such module "Lang". "he is sick"
- Script error: No such module "Lang". "he must be sick; I guess he's sick; maybe he's sick; he might be sick."[2]
See also
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Loos, Eugene E.; Anderson, Susan; Day, Dwight H. Jr.; Jordan, Paul C.; Wingate, J. Douglas. "What is dubitative mood?". Glossary of linguistic terms. SIL International. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Native Languages: Ojibwe and Cree (PDF). The Ontario Curriculum. Ontario Ministry of Education. ISBN 0-7794-3384-X. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 5, 2024.
External links
- Page Template:Sister-inline/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Sister project logo". The dictionary definition of dubitative at Wiktionary
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