[lojban-beginners] Re: another oddity pe la jbofi'e

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 12 June 2009 04:19:08 tijlan wrote:
> This is from la alis (pamo'o):
>
>  i abuboi so'uroi sutra zgana le cukta poi le mensi cu tcidu
>
> Is "so'uroi" a free modifier here? "so'uroiku" might be, but "so'uroi
> sutra zgana" is a tag selbri, isn't it?

"so'uroi" is a tense marker, not a free modifier. It can act as a preposition 
like other tense markers. So "so'uroi le sutra zgana" is a term, as 
is "so'uroiku", but "so'uroi" just before "sutra zgana" modifies it as a 
tense marker.

Pierre