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doi jbopre poi zmadu mi le ka prije Two things have recently “clicked” with
me regarding modals (one a few weeks ago, and the second just today), and
I wanted to make sure I’ve gotten it right, because I never quite “got”
this from the CLL 1) Modals are
simply another “slot” in the bridi, no less than FA are, and not just
a separate thing that just kind of hangs off there in space. For example,
the definition of “mlatu” could have (in some sense) been written “X1
is a cat, forced by BAI, in language BAU, etc….” (I think
what has always confused me here is the way that jbofi’e (at least the
web version?) puts a BAI phrase in parentheses, off by itself, so visually
isolating it, intead of the way it says, for example, “[zmadu2 exceeded
things] :} mi “_ 1b) As such, a BAI slot
can go anywhere in a bridi that a FA can, doesn’t have to be off at the
end: mi pa klama bai lo ka xagji ku le gusta (I went, compelled by hunger, to
the restaurant). 2) Tenses can
also act as modals (subject to the caveat in Chap. 10, sect. 23), which is why
things like “co’u le nu mi citka kei mi vamtu” (At the end of
my eating, I threw up) work. 2b)
(and hence, they too, can appear anywhere any “slot” can appear: mi
pa klama ba le nu mi citka kei le zdanii (“I went, after eating, home”) And none of these non-numbered slots (BAI, ZAhO,
PU, etc.) affect the numbering of non-tagged sumti (the way that members of FA
would), the untagged sumti just continue getting stuck in where
they last left off (or otherwise redirected by FA). So, have I got this right?? (and I think
I just had epiphany number three – this is what the heck is meant by
sumti tcita, isn’t it??)
--gejyuspa |