Meaning of sumti | Babel Free

Definitions

1. an argument passed to a selbri (“predicate”)
   Lojban
2. a parameter ("place") in a selbri (“predicate”)'s "place structure", which can be filled with an argument (sumti (“argument”) in the above sense)
   Lojban

Examples

“Focusing on artificial languages and Lojban in particular. News, state of the language, tutorials, poetry, cleft place⟳ structures, and sumti-raising with other long debates on how to construct a sentence in Lojban.”

“Names may also be used as sumti provided they are preceded with the word "la".”

“The LRG (ibid.) says, "Usually, placing more than one sumti [argument] before the selbri [predicator] is done for style or for emphasis on the sumti that are out-of-place from their normal position. (Native speakers of languages other than English may prefer⟳ such orders.)"”

“Showing which sumti fill⟳ each of the places of each selbri From Debian”

“The simplest kind of selbri consists of a single root word, called a "gismu", and the definition in a dictionary gives the place⟳ structure⟳ explicitly. The primary task of constructing a Lojban sentence, after choosing the relationship itself, is decideing what you will use⟳ to fill⟳ in the sumti places.”

“In counting sumtifor voá series anaphora, you are concerned only with the sumti (and not modal/tense operators) of the main bridi of an utterance, as they are formally defined.”

“The high-level parser then converts that string into XML and traverses it, organizing its sumti into data structures.”

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