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

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.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?

Preposition, perhaps?

I just call them BAIs.

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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