Re: IE subjunctive

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> [...] From my understanding *-i is the "indicative", a marker
> that expresses true facts, which is why we don't see this
> marker in the negative (never **/ne est-i/, just */ne est/).

That is not so. The negative form of the present indicative is
simply the present indicative (with a negative particle) which ends
in *-ti in the 3sg.

Jens