Definition of "sumti"
sumti
noun
plural sumti
(Lojban grammar) an argument passed to a selbri (“predicate”)
Quotations
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
(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)
Quotations
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.
2002 March 3, Nick Nicholas, “Folk Functionalism in Artificial Languages: The Long Distance Reflexive vo á in Lojban”, in Journal of Universal Language, page 153