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[lojban-beginners] Re: CAhA in linguistics



On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, tijlan <pascal.akihiko@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there academic/linguistic terms for CAhAs:
>
>  ca'a
>  pu'i
>  nu'o
>  ka'e
>
> ?

They are one kind of modals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_modality

Not to be confused with the idiosyncratic use of "modal" in Lojban literarture.

mu'o mi'e xorxes