Re: [lojban] What's a better word for modals?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:36:35PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> The usual linguistic use of "modal" means a word like {ka'e}, or
> in the Germanic languages, a class of verbs, defective in English,
> with that semantic function, in which the original past tense is
> used as the present. The word in the CLL means a preposition
> derived from a brivla (all except {tai} are derived from gismu,
> and {do'e}, which belongs to the same selma'o, is a vague
> preposition not derived from any brivla). What's a better term for
> them?

sumtcita

-Robin

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