What is declarative mood?

Definition
	Declarative mood is an epistemic mood that signals that the proposition expressed by a speaker’s utterance is offered as an unqualified statement of fact.

Discussion
	The term indicative is used in a narrow sense as a synonym of declarative. In its broad usage, indicative is approximately equivalent in meaning to realis.

Generic
	Declarative mood is a kind of
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Sources
	Palmer 1986 26–27
	Sadock and Zwicky 1985 165–166
	Hartmann and Stork 1972 144
	Crystal 1980 85
	Palmer 1986 70, 83
	Pei and Gaynor 1954 99
	Crystal 1980 183
	Mish 1991 613

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