Dubitative mood (Eskimo)

In Eskimo–Aleut languages, the dubitaive mood (abbreviated DUB) is a verb form used for dependend adverbial clauses with the meaning 'whether'. The following example is from North Alaskan Inupiaq:^[1]

taatna-tun	qasruniq-mi	nutqaŋa+kmaŋaata	qiñiq+iaq+naq+tut
thatway-SIM.S	eddy-LOC.S	stop+DUB.3P	see-go.to.V-should.be.Ved-IND.3P

|- |'You should go to see whether they [salmon] have stopped at the eddy like that.'

Due to the broader meaning of the term mood in the context of Eskimo grammar, the dubitative can be considered outside of the proper scope of grammatical mood. Also, its meaning is not related to that of the dubitative moods of non-Eskimo languages.

References

↑ Nagai 2006, pp. 97–98.

Bibliography

Nagai, Tadataka (2006). "Agentive and patientive verb bases in North Alaskan Inupiaq". United States -- Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks. Retrieved 2016-04-12.

Linguistic modalities and grammatical moods

Realis
(what is)

Irrealis

Deontic (what should be)	Benedictive Commissive (promises, threats) Directive (commands, requests, requirements) Deliberative Hortative (+ subtypes) Imperative Jussive Necessitative Permissive Precative Prohibitive Propositive Volitive (hopes, wishes, fears) Desiderative Imprecative Optative

Epistemic (what may be)	(inferences, possibilities, questions, etc.) Alethic Assumptive Deductive Dubitative Hypothetical Inferential/renarrative/oblique Interrogative Potential Speculative Subjunctive

Dependent circumstances (what would be)	Conditional Eventive

Eskimo–Aleut languages and dialects

Aleut	Aleut

Inuit¹	Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktun Inuinnaqtun (disputed) Kangiryuarmiutun Inuktitut North Baffin (disputed) Inuttitut Inupiaq (Iñupiaq Braille) Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Inuvialuktun Aivilik Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik North Baffin (disputed) Siglitun Utkuhiksalik

Yupik	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik²

See also	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo-Aleut Inuktitut syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Yugtun script

Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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