sumti

Etymology

From Lojban.

noun

1. (Lojban grammar) an argument passed to a selbri (“predicate”)
   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. 1993, M. Gunderloy, Factsheet Five - Issues 49-53, page 43
   Names may also be used as sumti provided they are preceded with the word "la". 1997, JW Cowan, The complete Lojban language, page 13
   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.)" 2000, Alan Libert, Languages of the World - Issues 24-27, page 114
   Showing which sumti fill each of the places of each selbri From Debian 2004, Binh Nguyen, Linux Dictionary, page 845
2. (Lojban grammar) a parameter ("place") in a selbri (“predicate”)'s "place structure", which can be filled with an argument (sumti (“argument”) in the above sense)
   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. 1997, JW Cowan, The complete Lojban language, page 12
   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. March 3, 2002, Nick Nicholas, “Folk Functionalism in Artificial Languages: The Long Distance Reflexive vo á in Lojban”, in Journal of Universal Language, page 153
   The high-level parser then converts that string into XML and traverses it, organizing its sumti into data structures. 2005, Brandon Wirick, Lojban as a Tool for Encoding Prose on the Semantic Web (Masters Thesis, Californai Polytechnic State University), page 50