Definition
Dubitative mood is an epistemic mood which signals a speaker’s reservation about the accuracy of his or her statement.
Examples
(Ojibwa)
The Ojibwa suffix -tik expresses dubitative mood, as in the following construction:
kenapac uwaya pieya:tik ‘someone seems to be coming here’
(Leonard Bloomfield)
Sources 2
- Nida 1949, 169
- Bybee 1985, 179