- Deliberative mood
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Deliberative mood (abbreviated del) is a grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?"[1]
The Afar language has a deliberative mood, as in aboo "Shall I do (it)?", with the suffix -oo denoting the deliberative.[1]
References
- ^ a b Loos, Eugene E.; Susan Anderson; Dwight H. Day, Jr.; Paul C. Jordan; J. Douglas Wingate. "What is deliberative mood?". Glossary of linguistic terms. SIL International. http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsDeliberativeMood.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
Linguistic modalities and grammatical moods what is is expressed objectively: Realis what is expressed subjectively: Irrealis what is logical: Alethicwhat should be: Deonticpromises, threats: Commissivecommands, requests, requirements: DirectiveDeliberative • Hortative (+ subtypes) • Imperative • Jussive • Necessitative • Permissive • Precative • Prohibitivehopes, wishes, fears: Volitivewhat would be: Conditional (Eventive)what may be: Epistemicinferences, possibilities, questions, etc.Assumptive • Deductive • Dubitative • Evidential • Hypothetical • Inferential, renarrative or oblique • Interrogative • Potential (Eventive) • Speculative • SubjunctiveThis linguistic morphology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.