Causative mood
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In linguistic morphology, causative mood serves to express a causal relation, e.g., a logical inference relation, between the current clause and the clause or sentence it refers to. It occurs, for example, in Eskimo-Aleut languages.
Causative mood is not to be confused with the unrelated notion of causative voice, a valency-shifting operation in many languages.
In Inuktitut, the causative is used to link propositions that follow logically. It is much more broadly used in Inuktitut than similar structures are in English. The causative is one of the most important ways of connecting two clauses in Inuktitut:
Qannirmat qainngittunga
ᖃᓐᓂᖅ
qanniq-
to snow
ᒪᑦ
-mat
4 NSP CAUS
ᙯ
qai-
to come
ᙱᑦ
-nngit-
not
ᑐᖓ
-tunga
1SG NSP
Because it is snowing, I am not coming. (Inuktitut, North Baffin dialect)
taku-
to see
-mmat
4 SG NSP
because he sees; when he/she saw. (Arctic Quebec Inuktitut; Dorais 1990,[1] p.225)